Maxim Lannay is the winemaker who has forged his own path in Jura, far beyond the region's classic templates. After being an apprentice with Alice Bouvot at the legendary Domaine de l'Octavin and Domaine Villet, among others, he bought a microscopic 0.7 hectare vineyard in Saint-Cyr-Montmalin north of Arbois in 2017. Despite a difficult start with frost and climate challenges, he laid the foundation for what would become Domaine Les Barbatruks — a project he has been running since 2019 with his partner Isabelle Delahaye, a former top sommelier and like-minded wine enthusiast. They cultivate small, scattered plots of land in and around Arbois, Montigny-les-Arsures and Pupillin, where the blue, chalky marl soil gives their wines a characteristic acidity and minerality.

All work in the vineyards is carried out according to biodynamic principles and is carried out by hand, from harvest to sorting. In the cellar, the wines are fermented with natural yeast strains, gently pressed with a manual vertical press and slowly aged in old barrels. No additives are used — no fining, no filtration, no sulfur. The result is natural wines with intensity, energy and a sometimes wild character that still always bears traces of precision and vision. With their négociant series Les Barbatruks, where they buy grapes from biodynamic growers in the Rhône, Languedoc and Alsace, among others, they also explore freer expressions — easy-drinking, vibrant wines that reflect the couple's curiosity and creativity. Maxim and Isabelle embody controlled chaos: where deep respect for terroir coexists with an uncompromising, sometimes crazy, freedom to make wine on their own terms.