Jean Paul & Charly Thevenet Regnie Grain

An expressive wine with luscious red fruits of redcurrants and wild strawberries, balanced by great acidity and minerality giving the wine a wonderful freshness. Taken from a 4-hectare plot of Gamay on granite soil. The grapes are cold vatted at 10°C, carbonic maceration for 3 weeks, non-interventionist vinification (or without pumping over and punching down). Time does its work; the only action is the bi-weekly analysis which is used to follow the evolution of the wine. Ageing of 1 year in 50% concrete vat and the other 50% in Burgundian barrels

The Thévenet family has lived in Villié-Morgon, in the heart of the Beaujolais wine region, for the last four generations. Jean-Paul Thevenet is certainly a name in everyone’s ear ever since Kermit Lynch dubbed him, together with Marcel Lapierre, Guy Breton and Jean Foillard, as Beaujolais famous “Gang of Four” in the ‘80s. The essence of their philosophy: take a step back, appreciate and cultivate old vines, apply organic farming practices, avoid the use of sulphur, let natural ferments do their magic and help the terroir expressing itself through minimal intervention.