{"title":"Thomas Puéchavy","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"thomas-puechavy-les-turbulents","title":"Les Turbulents 2023","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAncestral-method Chenin made using the earliest harvest selection for its abundance of mouthwatering acidity. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe two years \u003ci\u003esur lattes\u003c\/i\u003e before disgorgement has taken the wine from quenching pet-nat into altogether more refined territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOpen aromas of ripe orchard fruits take on a zing of sherbet as perlant pinprick bubbles dance on the tongue. A hairline wire of lingering acid pulls through ripe flesh and chalky minerals, into an extended saline finish, the brioche and spice of the lees an assured counterpoint to the clean, linear fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFrom the first passes of the vineyards in early to mid September, the grapes were pressed directly and then bottled with no additions right at the start of 2024, while fermentation was still in motion. Feeling the benefit of a warm, balanced 2023 vintage this everything you’d hope for in a sparkling wine made from this noble grape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMagnums available too, while they last!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Puéchavy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45028877926630,"sku":"WAY-PUECHAVY-TURBU-2023","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8259\/2742\/files\/Thomas_Puechavy_Les_Turbulents_2022.jpg?v=1741357662"},{"product_id":"thomas-puechavy-les-vrilles-nv","title":"Les Vrilles 2022\/23","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWith a little struck-match reduction on opening, given a moment to breathe the wine begins to show its tightly-coiled precision. A one-off, experimental cuvée that blends two contrasting vintages – the heat and ripeness of 2022 with the cool, linear 2023 – it is a wine of tentative equilibrium as these opposing qualities are brought together. Beautifully pale in the glass, fruits are crisp green apple and salt-encrusted lemon, with a taut undernote of volatility, but simultaneously there is the presence of richness and texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe 2022 was direct-pressed into steel, where it rested for two years, the 2023 had one year in fibreglass. The two vintages were then blended together to age a further three months in steel before bottling. Tense and angular, it is a vertical wine with acidity that cuts like a beam and awakens the senses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Puéchavy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55228069380478,"sku":"WAY-PUECHAVY-VRILLES-NV","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8259\/2742\/files\/Puechavy_Les_Vrilles_2223.jpg?v=1769685649"},{"product_id":"thomas-puechavy-le-rayon-blanc-2023","title":"Le Rayon Blanc 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eRayon is tense, multilayered Chenin, with concentrated ripeness, textural depth and a judicious opulence. The nose shows luscious orchard fruits with a softness of apple blossom, honey and the faintest touch of walnut. Perfectly balancing buttery broad-shoulders with a lucid clarity, this finely-tuned wine is bound with a sinew-y coil of acidity that cuts with phenomenal length – the titular white ray.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the same selection of 25 to 40 year-old vines that yields Turbulents and Les Vrilles, here the selection leans toward riper grapes harvested over multiple passes all the way to the end of September. The grapes were direct-pressed and went into old barrels to rest for one year, before being racked to fibreglass vats for a final six months. This year roughly 20% of the wine was aged completely in steel, to ease the barrel influence ever so slightly. It was finally blended and bottled with no additions in March 2025. 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It’s fascinating to see how this small vessel has taken the wine in such a different direction. An open wine of great purity, with delicate florals and a gentle forward-motion that seems to melt into the palate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe grapes were harvested towards the end of September for optimum ripeness, then direct-pressed. Usually this wine sees a long ageing in barrel, but for this cuvée a small amount was reserved for the amphora. Here it rested for 18 months before a short move to fibreglass cuve before bottling with no additions in July 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Puéchavy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56789584281982,"sku":"WAY-PEUCH-DOYEN-23","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8259\/2742\/files\/PuechavyLesDoyennes2020.jpg?v=1689063482"},{"product_id":"thomas-puechavy-dame-jeanne","title":"Dame-Jeanne 2020","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eStunning one-off \u003ci\u003eMoelleux\u003c\/i\u003e-style wine from the heatwave 2020 vintage, with some grape bunches showing the potential for high alcohol, even at the very start of the harvest. With a moderate 20g\/l of residual sugar remaining, its sweetness is balanced superbly by the soaring acids, making it an ideal companion to a plate of cheeses at the end of a meal. Golden orchard fruit, lemon sorbet, nuts and spices, all with a luscious texture that passes over the palate into a long, beam of coiling acid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFive years in the making, the wine was in barrel for two years before being moved to glass demijohn for another three. The sugar slowly, slowly worked its way out over this time, but not completely. The gentle oxidative notes meld beautifully with the purity of the fruit, showing yet another guise of the varietal. A meagre 100 bottles were made, with no additions at any stage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Puéchavy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56789601583486,"sku":"WAYWARD-PUECHAVY-DAME","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8259\/2742\/files\/Thomas_Puechavy_Chenin_Dame_Jean.jpg?v=1769616173"}],"url":"https:\/\/waywardwines.co.uk\/collections\/thomas-puechavy\/style-no-added-sulphur.oembed","provider":"Wayward Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}