BELLY WINE EXPERIMENT
Chanteuges - Auvergne
Claire Sage, Guy Enoch, and Aimé Duveau make wine in a small village on the Allier river, and while they haven’t been doing it long we are very excited by the results. Claire and Aimé are both connected to wine through family: Claire’s brother is an importer of Catalan wines to Paris (which explains the prevalence of Xarello in their wines); Aimé’s father is Manu Duveau of Yahou Fatal, from whom they harvest the majority of their Auvergnat grapes. The winemaking is intuitive and, as the name would suggest, experimental.
Producer:Belly Wine Experiment
Region: Auvergne, France
Grapes: Gamay d’Auvergne (Blanzat)
Style: Red
Alc: 12.5%
Size: 75cl bottle
Notes: A mix of 2 batches of gamay d’Auvergne – one from Manu Deveau, the other from Nicolas Lebleu. The combined fruit is macerated in whole clusters for 15 days, and aged for 13 months before bottling. A fuller take on this cuvée: tannin is gentle, but the fruit is big! A touch of smoke and ink round this off nicely.