Baptiste Ramboz

Jura, France

Baptiste Ramboz is a quiet and low key Arboisien, whom despite working for Tony Bornard and across the globe (including stints in Australia and Sonoma) has kept a super low profile, selling his wares mostly locally and to Japan. If you do some deep digs on the gram, or wherever else it is that you find out your nicher than niche vin nature facts, you’ll see that select heads have been dipping into Baptiste’s bottles for a few years now already, but somehow his labels just slipped by as you lusted after whatever other Jurassic etiquette you had a thing for at the time. In typical discreet Jura fashion, Ramboz has just under a hectare of Savagnin, Chardonnay, and Trousseau (though recently he has planted more), and we are lucky to have a small grip of his special single varietal bottlings plus Rotsah by Cuvée 3000, Ramboz’s négoce project. Baptiste’s wines are textbook with edge, and not beset by any reductive issues that plague so many young wines from the area.

Brindzinque 2023
Trousseau
$57

Trousseau that is all deep blueberries and little red fruits, fine tannins on its edges—not light, not heavy. Great now, but will also loosen up with age; a fine example of why Trousseau seems to be the more fascinating red cépage of the region as of late.

But en Blanc 2022
Savagnin
$72

Classic ouille Savagnin that starts off chiseled and mineral, it becomes more tropical as the bottle develops with extra notes of vanilla curd and the proper amount of headiness to make this one go down fast.

Rotsah 2023
Pinot Gris (Alsace)
$47