French Wine Price|£40-£50 | Wayward Wines

Price – £40-£50

Experience the essence of French wines, offering a rich variety of natural reds, whites, and rosés from the country’s renowned wine regions.

Jean-Pierre Robinot
Lumière des Sens 2022

Compact and elegant with plenty of those classic white peppercorn and wild herb characteristics associated with Pineau d’Aunis – things we love! A slick, supple feel to the body sits with neat tannins framing layers of dark fruit, liquorice and spice. Find out more.

  • Region Jasnières, Loire, France
  • Grapes Pineau d'Aunis
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£44.75

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Aurélien & Charlotte Houillon
'Indigo' Côtes-du-Rhône 2020

This is where Aurélien's fine touch comes into play, the wine is deep and structured but he manages to retain so much freshness and nuances within it. Indigo also expresses complex and enticing aromas of bramble fruits, viola flowers and blood orange Find out more.

  • Region Vaucluse, Côtes-du-Rhône, France
  • Grapes Syrah & Grenache
  • Vineyard Organic & Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£49

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Jerome Saurigny
Biclir 2022

A category defying red/white blend, light, fragrant, a touch more tannin + green fruit than previous cuvées, still lithe + bloody with pretty floral aromatics Find out more.

  • Region Rochefort sur Layon, Loire, France
  • Grapes Grolleau, Gamay, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chenin Blanc & Sauvignon Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£47.50

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Frédéric Cossard
Bourgogne Blanc Bigotes 2021

Bigotes Blanc is the gateway white to Cossard’s world of zero-zero Burgundy, under the more regional ‘Bourgogne’ AOC and made using grapes from a number of plots around Puligny. Find out more.

  • Region Saint-Romain, Burgundy, France
  • Grapes Chardonnay
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£52.50

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Le Mazel
Cuvée Larmande 2011

Those who have had the experience know that, whilst humbly priced, Mazel wines age with aplomb. We're happy to offer a small quantity of the above Syrah cuvee with well over a decade under its belt. Here we start to see the youthful fruit fall away into something more chiseled and defined. Find out more.

  • Region Valvignères, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Syrah
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£42

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Elisa Guerin
Beaujolais Villages 2023 MAGNUM

Elisa is back with the 2022 iteration of this Wayward favourite. From a hot vintage this is a deeper, riper Gamay that nonetheless retains its delicacy and verve. Dusty spices, black cherry fruits, stony minerals and elegant, fine-grained tannins. Just delicious. Find out more.

  • Region Chénas, Beaujolais, France
  • Grapes Gamay
  • Vineyard Uncertified Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£49.50

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Jean-François Essler
Réve Éphémère 2022

A silky wine full of pretty red fruit. We’d suggest giving it a bit of air once opened, with a chance to breathe the plush layers of fruit will start to emerge. Find out more.

  • Region Grusse, Jura, France
  • Grapes Poulsard & Pinot Noir
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£43.50

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Yannick Meckert
Cris et Chuchotements 2023

A compact, elegant and deeply savoury macerated Pinot Gris with moreish notes of red cherry and blood orange taking centre stage before a long, salty finish. Gleaming ruby in the glass, this category defying wine falls somewhere in-between the orange and rosé wine world thanks maceration on the grapes pinkish-grey skins. Find out more.

  • Region Rosheim, Alsace, France
  • Grapes Pinot Gris
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£43

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Petite Nature
L'Amour a la Plage 2023

Golden amber in colour, with tannins that are chalky, dialled-back, yet deeply integrated. Citrus oils, ripe peach, salty apricot and sweet almond meld harmoniously with herbal aromatics and a distinctive tea-like quality. Find out more.

  • Region Quintenas, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Viognier & Chardonnay
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£41.50

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Domaine Fauvettes
De l'Aube à l'Aube Bourgogne 2022

A warmer year has produced a wine that is a little darker and deeper than previous vintages, where firm tannins frame woodsy notes of berries, earth and spice. Find out more.

  • Region Mâcon, Burgundy, France
  • Grapes Pinot Noir
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£60

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Hubert & Heidi Hausherr
Rouge Venise 2022

Fantastically pure single-vineyard Pinot Noir, with a glassy sort of tension that binds pretty red fruits, perfume and spice. Find out more.

  • Region Eguisheim, Alsace, France
  • Grapes Pinot Noir
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£43

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Domaine Pattes Loup
Chablis 'Vent d'Ange' 2021

Chardonnay, Chablis. Razor-sharp purity & mouth-watering, zesty grapefruit, along with saline, apricot fruit & texture. Incredibly clean, long finish. Find out more.

  • Region Chablis, Burgundy, France
  • Grapes Chardonnay
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£48.75

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Domaine de la Côtelette
Right Pinot 2023

Wonderfully delicate, aromatic and bright with Benoit's signature purity underpinning every sip. It's sure to only get better with time. Find out more.

  • Region Côte de Saône, Burgundy, France
  • Grapes Pinot Noir
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£41

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Petite Nature
Bonne Etoile 2022

A wine of stunningly deep, concentrated fruit, with the sort of silky elegance that only patience in the cellar can bring. Aromatics are both savoury and perfumed, with peppercorn spice, charry blackcurrant and something earthy, like walking into a cool stone cellar. Find out more.

  • Region Quintenas, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Gamay & Syrah
  • Vineyard Organic & Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£44.50

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Petite Nature
Sorcières 2023

Aromatically, Syrah, briny black olive tapenade, spicy blackcurrant. On the palate the Viognier shows in citrus peel, fennel, green olive and a silky fluidity. Find out more.

  • Region Quintenas, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Sérine & Viognier
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£41.50

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Petite Nature
Tombée du Ciel 2023

One of Paulette’s domaine wines, from a small parcel of 50 year-old Gamay, planted over sandy decomposed granite and quartz at around 500 meters in the hills outside Annonay. This is in many ways her signature cuvée, and offers a beautiful expression of the extreme north of the Ardèche. Find out more.

  • Region Quintenas, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Gamay
  • Vineyard Organic & Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£43

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Frédéric Cossard
Feel Good Qvevris 2020

From a parcel planted with fifty year old vines over marl in the Jura’s Sud Revermont, this direct press of Savagnin vinified in the Burgundian or ‘ouillé’ style and aged in Georgian qvevris. Find out more.

  • Region Rotalier, Jura, France
  • Grapes Savagnin
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£50

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Domaine de la Côtelette
Les Trognes De Pinot 2023

A beautiful, pure expression of Pinot Noir coming from very old vines, some over 100 years old. Find out more.

  • Region Côte de Saône, Burgundy, France
  • Grapes Pinot Noir
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£44

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La Ferme des Sept Lunes
De Deux Choses Lune St Joseph Blanc 2019

A blend of Marsanne and Roussanne grown on silt, clay and granite soils. This is a wine of wonderful power and precision. Well balanced with clean minerality. Find out more.

  • Region St. Joseph, Northern Rhône, France
  • Grapes Marsanne & Roussanne
  • Vineyard Organic & Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£42.50

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Hubert & Heidi Hausherr
Rouge Chamade 2023

Chamade binds pretty red fruits, perfume and spice with a sumptuous ripeness and underlying muscularity. Find out more.

  • Region Eguisheim, Alsace, France
  • Grapes Pinot Noir
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£43

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La Calmette
Resurgences 2021

A completely unique white wine from the Cahors - a region famed for its robust reds. Resurgences encapsulates elegance, vibrancy, complexity and surprise. The wine balances perfectly between power and elegance. Find out more.

  • Region Cahors, France
  • Grapes Noual, Sylvaner, Sauvignon Blanc & Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£42

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Domaine de la Côtelette
Meligoté 2023

Showing plenty of flesh, texture and rounded fruit at the moment, the wine feels fun in its youthful years, to only gain complexity with time. One to lay down. Find out more.

  • Region Côte de Saône, Burgundy, France
  • Grapes Aligoté & Melon de Bourgogne
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£42

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Mikaël Bouges
La Pente De Chavigny 2022 MAGNUM

A limited, large-format magnum bottling of Mikaël's entry-point white made with 100% Sauvignon Blanc from a mixture of five different parcels, each planted over gravelly limestone. The grapes are direct-pressed, then fermented and raised in steel for a pristine, bone-dry and whistle-clean style. Find out more.

  • Region Touraine, Loire, France
  • Grapes Sauvignon Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£46.50

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