Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet - Régnié “En Voiture Simone...” 2023 (750ml)
Price: $34.99
| Producer | Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Varietal | Gamay |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Sku | 202010 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet Description
When Jean-Paul Thévenet took the reins of his family’s Beaujolais domaine in 1976, the region was in the midst of a productivity boom. Following WWII, modern developments including powerful fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides were introduced as progresssive solutions to traditional farming practices and rapidly became widespread. Jean-Paul’s father embraced these changes, which at the time were welcome improvements to the time-consuming, physically demanding labor to which the generations preceding him had grown accustomed.
Jean-Paul picked up where his father left off until a childhood friend convinced him to return to pre-industrial ways of farming and winemaking. Marcel Lapierre, who also ran a domaine in Villié-Morgon, had been experimenting with natural vinifications of organically farmed fruit with promising results, guided by the mentorship of local biochemist and vigneron Jules Chauvet. With Lapierre’s counsel, Thévenet began by eliminating synthetic treatments in his vines and in 1981 made a first attempt at producing a natural wine, using ripe, hand-harvested fruit fermented whole-cluster with vineyard yeasts, very little added sulfur, and no chaptalization.
Father and son now work together under one label, carrying forth Jean-Paul’s vision of pure and profound Beaujolais from old vines via sustainable farming and low-intervention winemaking. The Thévenets’ plush, mouth-filling Morgon and spicy, stony Régnié are a testament to their status as natural wine pioneers, definitively cementing their legacy in the Beaujolais hall of fame.
Régnié “En Voiture Simone...” is sourced from a single climat named "Le Village"
The label is a photo of Charly’s grandparents from the 1950s (Simone was his grandmother’s name); the name of the wine roughly translates to “let’s go”
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