Hi Everybody

A good many years ago we spent a few days in the delightful Jura region of France. Good food and beautiful countryside everywhere. One evening, we met by chance, a wine merchant from Belgium and with him were able to visit the world famous Domaine of Jean Macle and family at Château-Chalon.

It was a really wonderful experience tasting the very unusual “Vin Jaune” of the Domaine and seeing their beautiful, but small Domaine. The wine was, I seem to recall, tasted with small pieces of the local Comté cheese, another delicious food from the Jura region.

The Macle family have been making wine in Château-Chalon since 1850 and it is a very unusual wine as the  10 year ageing process gives  the wine a very distinctive taste and bouquet. Their small Domaine is around 19 hectares and stretches across the beautiful hills of the Côte de Jura region.

Jean Macle is acknowledged as a true Master of Château Chalon.

After recently watching a television programme by Rick Stein on French cuisine, I was looking back through my photos of our visit to the Jura, when I found a number of photos which have led me to paint this watercolour of the Château Chalon  with the vines growing down the hillsides.

It reminds us that this is one of the many beautiful regions of France that we really must try and visit in the next few years.

Our visit there was quite extraordinary experience for which  I am most grateful to Jean Macle and his family. I am sure that their wine production will continue for many more generations of their Family.

I hope you like this watercolour, 37 by 28 cms and painted on Arches Cold Pressed watercolour paper.

If you ever get the chance to spend sometime in the Jura, it is really wonderful part of France.

Happy travelling

Brian

The Town of Château-Chalon in the Jura region of France. Watercolour 37 by 28 cms on Arches paper.