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.

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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Domaine Dandelion
Pet Nat 2024

As always, racy and textured, the 2024 brings a blackberry yoghurt element to to this well loved cuvée, alongside chalky minerality and balanced acidity. Find out more.

  • Region Beaune, Burgundy, France
  • Grapes Pinot Noir & Gamay
  • Vineyard Organic & Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphite
£41.75

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Frédéric Cossard
Bourgogne Blanc Bigotes 2021

This has everything we love about Burgundian Chardonnay, possessing great balance, chalky minerals, gorgeous stone fruits and a clean, salty finish. 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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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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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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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
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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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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Petite Nature
Danser Sous la Pluie 2023

100% Merlot that did not ferment completely dry, so Paulette elected to bottle with a little residual sugar, giving the wine that wide-eyed drinkability and lightly spritzy character. Bright red fruits feel luminous and crackle with energy, a lick of balsamic cuts the palate. Find out more.

  • Region Quintenas, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Merlot
  • Vineyard Organic & Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£41

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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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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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Elisa Guerin
Moulin-à-Vent 'Champ de Cour' 2023

Here we see a hyper-specific expression of terroir, this parcel singled out to make its own unique wine owing to its sandy decomposed granite soils having a high content of the manganese minerals - something closely associated with fine structure and ageability of wines from this cru Find out more.

  • Region Beaujolais
  • Grapes Gamay
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£43

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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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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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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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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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Patricia & Rémi Bonneton
L'Alezan 'Suspens' 2022

Patricia & Remi's domaine white is a distinctly Northern Rhône affair; an equal blend of Marsanne & Roussanne from a single tiny plot, sitting a stone's throw from the river bend where the storied appellations of the region converge. Find out more.

  • Region Étables, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Marsanne & Roussanne
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£46

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Anders Frederik Steen
Like Pearls On A String 2022

This wine is a real snapshot of the rugged beauty and unpredictable nature of this corner of the world. One of a kind, we have just a handful of bottles to go around. Find out more.

  • Region Valvignères, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Field Blend
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£45

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Wayward Christmas Cases
Santa's Cellar Selects

For our top case, Santa has dug into his cellar to select some of his favourite festive bottles. Find out more.

  • Region Various
  • Grapes Various
£250

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Le Mazel
Cuvée Briand 2024 MAGNUM

A perfectly nourishing, Ardéchoise expression of Grenache that we'd happily drink day after day. 2024 sees an abundance of blackcurrant fruit right upfront, giving way to those typically herb-flecked notes of liquorice root, fennel and clove. Find out more.

  • Region Valvignères, Ardèche, France
  • Grapes Grenache
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£49.50

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ABRACADABRA
ALAKAZAM 2021

Rich and complex with honeyed stone fruits and white flower aromatics. Well balanced on the palate with a flinty minerality and a good lift of acidity. Find out more.

  • Region Pressat, Auvergne, France
  • Grapes Chardonnay
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£40.50

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Val de Combrès
Oxymore NV

Huge solera-style red that blends 6 different vintages of Grenache and Syrah in old barrels, making for the most muscular, powerfully-structured and complex wine we have tried from this grower. Find out more.

  • Region Luberon, Southern Rhône, France
  • Grapes Grenache & Syrah
  • Vineyard Organic & Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£41

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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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