Grapes: Cot
Region: VDF - Loire, France
Vintage: 2023
Viticulture: Organic
Soils: Clay over silex
Vinification: Semi carbonic
Fining or Filtering: None
Sulfur: None added
Notes from the Importer:
We were introduced to Jeremy by our good friend Olivier Lemasson. Jeremy worked with Olivier for a few years and managed to grab a couple hectares of land not far from Olivier's main plot in the Loir et Cher, not far from Cheverny. Before that, Jeremy learned the trade at Marcel Lapierre's winery and did a six-month internship at Clos Ouvert in Chile. In four vintages, he has shown that he can make clean, highly drinkable wines with very little sulphur dioxide. Jeremy is still a young vigneron and, in our opinion, he gets better every year.
The vineyard is one plot composed of young vine Gamay, middle-aged Cot, and old vine Gamay on a gentle slope of clay over Silex.
Buena Onda, Jeremy’s pet-nat, is always fruity, dark in color, and shows terroir as expressed through his young vine Gamay. The wine often has a few grams of residual sugar, as Jeremy is trying to make an aperitif wine, rather than serious fizz.
L'Insurge, from old vine Gamay, is dark but highly drinkable, terroir-driven glou-glou. Made using carbonic maceration, without sulphur dioxide if the vintage allows.
Cot'Lectif is another highly drinkable, carbonic wine made using techniques Jeremy learned from Marcel Lapierre. As per the name, the wine comes from Cot, rather than Gamay. Not intended to be an ager or a serious wine, but instead a gulpable bottle to be drunk young.
In 2016 Jeremy lost a fair amount of his harvest due to hail, and to supplement his production he purchased Syrah form Anne Leclerc in the Roussillon. All of the grapes are certified organic and come from sandy soils. One week of maceration yields a light-bodied, yet silky wine that exudes energy and freshness with a touch of smoke.
