2019
Gamay
Nathalie Banes is relatively new on the Loire’s natural winemaking scene. 2015 was her first vintage. Previously she worked with Xavier Benier (famous in the Loire for his unsulfured, super-natural wines) and her boyfriend is Julian Merle, another fantastic natty Loire producer. But she wanted to do something different with her own project, so she’s bypassing the traditional fermentation method of
Beaujolais (carbonic) and going the traditional Burgundian route to make more serious, less glou-glou wines. She has a small vineyard that she farms herself, organically, in Southern Beaujolais (south of Brouilly).