Jura scratches the itch

When Jancis wrote Jura – the next small thing? in 2012, she referred to the region’s ‘increasingly fashionable vineyards’ and quoted Stéphane Tissot’s view that Jura wines were ‘riding the crest of a wave’, and there has certainly been a steady increase in exports in the last five years, currently comprising 11% of production. Purple Pager Wink Lorch did much to bring the region to the world’s attention with her excellent, award-winning book Jura Wine , which was the culmination rather than the beginning of her consistent efforts to promote the region over the many years when wine quality was...