GAMAY 100%
APPELLATION
AOP Régnié
SOIL
Subsoil of granite and decaying shales
PRODUCTION
6 000 BOTTLES
VINIFICATION
In the cellars, the vinification process is simple and involves traditional carbonic fermentation using natural yeasts. The wines are neither fined nor filtered and have only minimal sulphites added. Since 2018, father and son are making wines under the same label.
AGE OF THE VINES
50 Years old
AGEING
Aging in concrete tank between 6 to 8 months
ALCOHOL CONTENT
13.5%
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
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 cultive old vines, apply organic farming practices, avoid the use of sulphur, let natural fermens do their magic and help the terroir expressing itself through minimal intervention.