Appellation Wines

Distillerie Cazottes presents an unusual and gastronomic creation based on old tomato varieties. This spirit develops a fresh, vegetal, and delicately spicy aromatic profile, with great purity on the palate. An original cuvée, combining aromatic finesse and fruit expression, emblematic of the house's artisanal expertise.

Organic White Pineau 2015

Alain Chadutaud

Terroir, plots, and grape varieties

It is in the heart of the limestone soils of Cognac, in this region where the sky and the vines have harmonized for centuries, that Alain Chadutaud passionately cultivates his Ugni Blanc. On typical clay-limestone soil, the roots draw the freshness and minerality necessary for the expression of a perfectly balanced white Pineau. The 2015 vintage, bathed in sunshine and tempered by Atlantic breezes, allowed for perfect grape maturation, giving birth to a generous and precise cuvée.

Cultivation methods

True to a philosophy that respects living things, Alain Chadutaud works biodynamically, with constant attention to soil vitality and vine balance. No synthetic inputs, but gentle practices, meticulous soil work, and natural preparations to support the plant throughout its cycle. The harvest, carried out at full maturity, precedes the subtle blending of grape juice and homemade Cognac eau-de-vie, according to the traditional savoir-faire of Pineau des Charentes. Aging takes place slowly in barrels, in order to develop this characteristic aromatic complexity.

Tasting & pairings

From the very first nose, the Organic Pineau 2015 opens with a charming bouquet of candied fruits, dried apricot, and acacia honey, underscored by a hint of sweet almond. On the palate, the magic happens: the attack is lively, almost lemony, followed by a honeyed roundness that caresses the palate, supported by a tangy framework that prevents any heaviness. The balance is perfect, the persistence remarkable, leaving a sensation of freshness and deliciousness on the finish.

This is a Pineau of character, both sunny and invigorating, ideal as an aperitif, served chilled with iodine-flavored appetizers or cheese puff pastries. It also nobly accompanies pan-seared foie gras, highlighting its richness without overpowering it. For dessert, it pairs wonderfully with an almond tart, a dark chocolate lava cake, or even a well-aged Roquefort for an intense sweet and savory experience.

Alain Chadutaud's Organic Pineau 2015 is much more than an aperitif: it is an invitation to discover a living terroir, an artisanal vision, and a mastery of time that expresses itself in every glass.

Magnum P'tit Poussot Blanc 2019,

Domaine de l'Octavin
Mineral and dry yet fruity, joyful and pleasant, this P'tit Poussot (the name of the plot) offers a nose of pear, apple, citrus, and pineapple, as well as plenty of freshness and acidity. A 100% Chardonnay grown biodynamically on red marl soils, it is perfect for excellent charcuterie: you can even pair it with pata negra or Iberian chorizo. An excellent aperitif or table wine.

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“You don’t need anything,” says Alice Bouvot, winemaker at Domaine de l’Octavin, “just a grape that’s happy in its skin.” Everything is said in favor of natural wine; it’s a perfect description. Created in 2005, Domaine d’Alice is located in Arbois, in the wine-growing Jura region, often described as the most organic vineyard in France. The practice of making – among other things – oxidative wines is a good preparation for natural wine, as this type of wine does not allow any chemical additives and especially no sulfites. It’s a secret of this magnificent region. Originally spread over two hectares, the estate, managed entirely biodynamically (Demeter) since 2010, has expanded through the gradual acquisition of plots and now covers seven hectares.

An accomplished musician and passionate music lover, Alice intends to apply her musical sensitivity to the wines she makes. She draws a parallel between the technical perfection of conventional wines which risks excluding feeling, while "a musician who does not know music theory and plays with his guts creates emotion." For her, living wine is like this: instinctive, improvised, emotional. Introduced to natural wine by Stéphane Planche, sommelier at chef Jean-Paul Jeunet in Arbois, she will faithfully follow this path. The sometimes whimsical titles of her vintages are inspired sometimes by musical art (Dorabella, Zerline), sometimes by the numerous plots of land that make up her vineyard (En Curon, Les Corvées, En Poussot, etc.), and do not disdain a pun from time to time. Likewise, the labels adorned with happy and salacious little gnomes are a signature of the estate. As for the grape varieties, they are the classics of the Jura — Poulsard, Trousseau, Pinot Noir for the reds, and Chardonnay, Savagnin for the whites. Alongside her Arbois wines, Alice has created a business of "on the vine" grapes (Ecocert certified) with her winegrower friends from the region. Natural, committed, joyful and highly drinkable, the wines of Alice Bouvot are all the more sought-after as the vintages, produced in plot-by-plot mode, appear, disappear and reappear depending on the vintage and inspiration.
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With Retour des Hirondelles Rouge 2024, an exclusive cuvée, La Tribu Alonso celebrates the renewal and vitality of life through a remarkably precise Gamay. Made from a collection of 31 Gamay varieties planted on a spectacular south-facing slope with a 42% gradient, this wine draws its energy from a demanding, light-bathed terroir.

The vines are cultivated without any synthetic products, in an approach that respects natural balance. In the cellar, the philosophy remains the same: no inputs or artificial enhancements, with spontaneous fermentations thanks to indigenous yeasts. Semi-carbonic maceration preserves the fruit's brilliance and aromatic finesse, while the exclusive use of free-run juice provides purity and elegance. Fifteen months of aging on lees structures the wine while maintaining its freshness.

In the glass, the color is a luminous, slightly cloudy red, a signature of a vibrant wine. The nose is expressive and delicate, blending notes of fresh red berries, citrus, and a subtle herbaceous touch that evokes the natural landscapes of the vineyard.

On the palate, the wine charms with its lightness and tension. The attack is supple, then gives way to a fine, floral, and ethereal texture. The balance between freshness and delicacy results in a digestible, precise, and particularly elegant wine, with a lively and persistent finish.

Retour des Hirondelles Rouge 2024 pairs ideally with artisanal charcuterie, grilled dishes, or white meats. It also perfectly complements convivial meals where the simplicity of the ingredients highlights the wine's purity.

With this exclusive cuvée, La Tribu Alonso offers a luminous and sincere natural wine, reflecting a demanding terroir and committed expertise.

With Tête D’a Fish Blanc 2024, La Tribu Alonso boldly explores the potential of hybrid grape varieties, blending Floréal, Villard, and Alain Bouquet into a cuvée that is as original as it is precise. True to its artisanal approach, the estate delivers a sincere natural wine here, made from vines cultivated without synthetic products and vinified without additives, in total respect for all living things.

This collection of hybrid grape varieties, still too often overlooked, allows for a different interpretation of the terroir and opens up new gustatory perspectives. After fermentation with indigenous yeasts, the wine benefits from 12 months of aging on lees, bringing texture, complexity, and beautiful aromatic depth.

In the glass, the color reveals itself in a pale hue with slightly hazy reflections, a sign of an unfiltered wine. The nose expresses itself with finesse, revealing aromas of white flowers, fresh pear, and a delicate herbaceous touch that evokes nature in its purest form.

On the palate, the attack is lively and precise, driven by a beautiful tension. The profile is resolutely fruity, with a supple yet dynamic body that stretches into a fresh and saline finish. The aging on lees rounds out the whole, offering a subtle balance between energy and deliciousness.

Tête D’a Fish Blanc 2024 naturally finds its place at the table. It perfectly accompanies seafood, grilled fish or fish in light sauces, as well as fresh or aged cheeses. Its tension and freshness also make it an excellent aperitif companion.

With this cuvée, La Tribu Alonso confirms its taste for experimentation and its ability to reveal vibrant, accessible, and deeply rooted natural wines of their time.

With Art Brut Rouge 2024, La Tribu Alonso creates a unique and profoundly lively cuvée, a true manifesto of uncompromising natural wine. Crafted from a biocentric harmony of 140 co-fermented grape varieties, this wine is as intriguing as it is captivating, embodying a free and collective vision of wine, faithful to the estate's artisanal spirit.

The grapes, grown on granitic soils, draw out a subtle minerality that contributes to the wine's tension. Cultivated without synthetic products in the vineyard, the work fully respects natural balances. In the cellar, vinification is done without artifice, using only indigenous yeasts, and a gentle seven-day infusion in open vats, followed by a short maceration that preserves the fruit's brilliance and the aromas' finesse.

Upon tasting, the wine reveals a luminous red color with slightly hazy reflections, a hallmark of low-intervention wines. The nose opens with an expressive aromatic palette combining fresh citrus, crisp red berries, and a delicate, almost wild herbaceous touch. On the palate, the attack is supple and juicy, giving way to a round, floral, and surprisingly complex texture. The balance between freshness and depth results in a digestible, vibrant, and evolving wine.

This reinterpreted Gamay is suitable for simple pairings as well as more daring combinations. It will perfectly accompany seasonal cuisine, grilled vegetables, roasted poultry, or vegetarian dishes with fresh herbs.

Art Brut Rouge 2024 is an invitation to explore wine differently, in all its spontaneity and raw energy.

L'Enchanteresse Rouge 2017,

La Grapperie
A very intense nose of black fruits extends into a beautiful volume on the palate, and the length leaves one dreaming. A cuvée of old vines, L'Enchanteresse is a 100% Pineau d'Aunis with excellent aging potential. The terroir of this aptly named Enchanteresse is made up of flint clay over limestone. The Pineau d'Aunis, which makes up the entire cuvée, is harvested at full maturity, sorted, then macerated for four weeks in truncated cone-shaped vats with punching down by foot. Fermentation occurs naturally using indigenous yeasts, without any oenological additives, in order to preserve the purity of the grapes and the expression of the vintage and the soil. The wine is aged for between twelve and twenty-four months on lees in demi-muids in cellars dug into the tuffeau stone.

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La Grapperie, in the Coteaux du Loir appellation, is the name of the estate of Renaud Guettier, who can be described as a master of Chenin, but also of Pineau d'Aunis, which is one of the oldest grape varieties in the Loire Valley. His principle, he confides, is "to produce complex, rich wines with good aging potential and imbued with the minerality of their terroir." The vines are located on hillsides, between 60 and 120 meters above sea level, protected from the north winds by the Bercé forest. Depending on the altitude, the terroirs are predominantly clay (at the bottom of the slope), flint (mid-slope) or sand (on the higher ground). The 60-hectare vineyard comprises around fifteen plots. The grape varieties are the two traditionally permitted in the appellation: Chenin for the whites and Pineau d'Aunis for 90% of the reds, the remainder consisting of a few acres of Côt, Gamay, and Grolleau. The average age of the vines is seventy years, including almost two hectares of century-old vines and one and a half hectares of vines aged between sixty and eighty years. Convinced of the enormous potential that these old vines can bring to his vintages, Renaud has been meticulous in restoring the vineyard. The entire estate is farmed organically. The soils are worked, and all viticultural interventions are manual, including the harvest, which is carried out at full maturity, which is reflected in the fullness and smoothness of the wines. For the reds, the Pineaux d'Aunis are partially destemmed (depending on the plot) and the macerations are quite long, three to four weeks, with punching down, to promote aging potential. The wines are aged in barrels for between twelve and twenty-four months, then racked, blended and bottled without filtration. For the whites, the Chenins are pressed directly at low pressure and then poured into barrels by gravity. Fermentation takes place in barrels, using indigenous yeasts, with complete malolactic fermentation, for at least eighteen months and sometimes up to thirty-six months.

Vin paillé Red 2012

Marie and Vincent Tricot

Marie and Vincent Tricot's Vin de paille is undoubtedly a curiosity: it's a sweet wine made from 100% Auvergne Gamay, entirely organic and natural, made like a Vin de paille from the Jura. The harvest is dried on straw in an attic before pressing. We're not used to Gamay vinified this way, or even red wine vinified this way.

It's an experiment, but the result more than justifies the boldness. Drying on straw concentrates the sugar in the grape berries and accentuates the flavors. Only a drop remains in each berry, but what a drop! Sweet, caressing, syrupy, complex, this Vin de paille is a delight. Its color is not a pure red but an amber, and the nose is a veritable basket of slightly jammy fruits: plum, prune, raisins, strawberry. It is possible that a refermentation takes place in the bottle, which can give a sparkling attack to this wine, but it disappears quickly. On the palate, a delicious sweetness, lots of strawberry and pleasantness. Very easy to drink.

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Among the generation of Auvergne winemakers who, at the dawn of the 21st century, are resurrecting the vineyards of this beautiful volcanic province of the Massif Central in organic and natural ways, Marie and Vincent Tricot are pioneers, and their name is well known to those who have long loved natural wine. After a varied winegrowing journey that took them from Beaujolais to Chile and from Chile to Costières-de-Nîmes, they landed in Auvergne, at the foot of the Puy de Dôme, in the commune of Orcet where they took over Claude Prugnard's vineyard, a land that had not seen the slightest chemical input for around thirty years. The estate is located on a hillside, on the left bank of the Allier, in a volcanic clay-limestone area neighboring the vineyards of Châteaugay, Chanturgue and Corent. They acquired it in 2003 and, since then, have been making wines from Auvergne Gamay, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, with a little Sauvignon Blanc and Muscat. These rare and sought-after wines are mainly sold directly. They have a straight and flamboyant profile, and express themselves with as much character as simplicity.

Made from 100% Obeideh, Lebanon's emblematic grape variety, this wine comes from vines over 60 years old located in Zahlé, at an altitude of 1,150 meters, on clay-limestone soils with an eastern exposure.
Organically farmed, it is vinified and aged for 12 months in stainless steel tanks on lees, revealing a straightforward and luminous wine, characterized by beautiful tension, a fine texture, and a pure expression of the terroir. Production limited to 5,000 bottles.

Made from 100% Viognier, this wine comes from vines over 25 years old located in Riyaq, at an altitude of 900 meters, on deep red clay soils with an east-facing exposure.
Organically farmed, it is mostly vinified in stainless steel tanks, with 25% of the fermentation taking place in 400L French oak barrels, then aged for 6 months on lees. The result is an expressive and elegant wine, combining freshness, a silky texture, and a subtle hint of wood. A limited production of 3,000 bottles.

Châteauneuf du Pape Red 2022

Domaine Les Grandes Serres

With this 2022 Châteauneuf-du-Pape cuvée, Domaine Les Grandes Serres offers a rare and unique version of this prestigious appellation: a wine with no added sulfites, deeply rooted in its terroir, and made from a Grenache majority harvested on the characteristic rolled pebbles of the region.

The vinification, carried out with finesse, begins with destemmed maceration, favoring controlled extraction of aromas and tannins. The wine is then aged for one year in barrels that have held several previous wines, which gives it a beautiful structure, without excessive oak, and slow oxygenation that stabilizes it naturally. No sulfur is added, either during vinification or bottling, allowing the wine to express itself in its freest form.

When tasted, this cuvée reveals a deep and intense color, with garnet reflections. The nose is generous: ripe dark fruits, dried fruits, peppery spices, and a subtle smoky note evoke the garrigue and the warmth of the South. On the palate, it is dense, sun-drenched, but the balance is there: melted tannins, a long and warm finish, with a beautiful reserve of freshness.

This Châteauneuf will perfectly accompany grilled or sauced red meats, rich autumn dishes, or well-spiced Mediterranean cuisine. Already appealing when young after decanting, it has a cellaring potential of over 10 years. A rare, sincere, and resolutely expressive bottle.

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