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L'Epicurien 2020
Gregory Guillaume • 750ml • 12%
£20.95
L'Epicurien by young French vigneron Gregory Guillaume is a red natural wine brimming with vibrant light and a true, terroir-driven personality. This is 100% Grenache Noir from a tiny, organically farmed plot on clay and limestone soils in the Ardeche region. Spontaneous fermentation and carbonic maceration occur for about a month, after which the wine sees a patient elevage in old wood for a year. Fresh and explosively juicy, it shines with wild berries, black plums, and pleasantly pungent balsamic notes.
PAIR WITH: grilled vegetables, seafood, tagliatelle ai funghi
Product Description
The Wine: L'Epicurien 2020
L'Epicurien by young French vigneron Gregory Guillaume is a red natural wine brimming with vibrant light and a true, terroir-driven personality. This is 100% Grenache Noir from a tiny, organically farmed plot on clay and limestone soils in the Ardeche region. Spontaneous fermentation and carbonic maceration occur for about a month, after which the wine sees a patient elevage in old wood for a year. Fresh and explosively juicy, it shines with wild berries, black plums, and pleasantly pungent balsamic notes.
The Producer: Gregory Guillaume
The young vigneron Gregory Guillaume makes truly explosive and terroir-driven delicious natural wines in France’s Ardeche region, near the village of Villeneuve de Berg. Like more than a few vignerons, Gregory started out with no background whatsoever in viticulture or winemaking but simply as a natural wine lover and avid drinker. He simply felt deeply inspired to begin making the artisanal, authentic wines that he loved to drink after moving to the region to explore the local caves. The soils are mostly clay and limestones and Gregory uses no chemicals or additives either in the vineyard or the cellar, focusing on making pure, light-filled wines that are just an unadulterated joy to drink.
The Region: Ardeche
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What is Natural Wine?
Natural winemaking has become a movement akin to a revolution, a nemesis to the industrialization and homogenization of wine in the past three decades. Natural wine producers are at the forefront of this movement, rejecting industrial winemaking techniques and the excessive use of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides or fertilizers in the vineyard. Perhaps even more importantly, natural wine should be seen as an agricultural product where farming is and essential part. Farming conditions, labor rights, sustainability, and ethical practises across the supply chain are now at the center of the discourse on natural wine.
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Natural Wine
Natural wine is a type of wine made in small batches from hand-harvested organic or biodynamic grapes with minimal intervention in the cellar. No industrial yeast is added to trigger fermentation or add a particular flavor to a natural wine; the fermentation process is not controlled with temperature-control devices. Read More...
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