Herve Villemade "Bovin" 1L 2023

Herve Villemade "Bovin" 1L 2023Press 4 Red August 2024 Direct Press Selection Herve Villemade's path to organic farming and zero sulfur wines was inspired by discovering Marcel Lapierre and Tue Boeuf's wines; and that he had an allergy to sulfur. To make sulfur free wines he needed his grapes to be super healthy, so he converted his family's vineyards to organic methods in 2000. Since then he's developed a reptuation for making some of the most reliably delicious, affordable

'Biko' is Pet Nat made from 75% Parellada and 25% Merlot

but it's missing none of their signature depth

She was able to source grapes a few hours away in the hinterlands of Saint-Pourçain from her friend Jean-Yves Bizot

It's one of those wines that was kind of hard to write about because my notes just say

*Please note we cannot ship this item outside of New York State

In the glass

Grapes: Palomino

then fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in concrete tanks for 10-15 days without temperature control

Fermented whole cluster

With a brilliant garnet color

Lucien died in 2018 but his son Vincent has been making the wines for a decade or more now

largely due to the stewardship of the Galleano family