Baptiste Ramboz traveled most of the way around the wine world before deciding the most interesting thing he could do was come home to Arbois and work less than a hectare of vines.
Backstory
A native of Arbois in the Jura, Ramboz completed a BTS and an apprenticeship in Bordeaux around 2012, then worked vines and cellars in Corsica, Provence, the Rhone, Australia and California, including a stint at Flowers on the Sonoma Coast. Back in the Jura, he spent five years with Tony Bornard and two with Les Bottes Rouges, beginning to make his own wines along the way before striking out on his own.
The Region
Arbois is the historic wine town at the heart of the Jura, the small, cool region in eastern France set between Burgundy and Switzerland and known for Savagnin and its oxidative traditions. It is a place where young, low-intervention growers have clustered, and Ramboz is part of that wave.
Vineyards & Farming
Ramboz began farming just under one hectare and has since taken on more land and planted new vines. He grows the classic Jura trio of Savagnin, Chardonnay and Trousseau, working organically. He is an active member of the young growers' collective La Vrille and remains deliberately small in scale.
Winemaking
His style is quiet and low-intervention, favoring indigenous fermentations and minimal additions. He sells most of his tiny production locally and to Japan rather than chasing wider distribution, prizing accessibility alongside quality.
The Wines
Ramboz makes single-variety bottlings under his own name, including the red Chasse Cousin and whites such as But en Blanc and the cuvee Brindzingue. He also collaborates with Mickael Sinclair on Boisson 3000, a shared negoce project farming roughly a hectare in Arbois organically and without added sulfites, which produces cuvees such as Rotsah.
