Vegan Wine Producer|Thomas Puéchavy | Wayward Wines

Producer – Thomas Puéchavy

Most conventional wine makers will use animal products for fining their wine, such as egg white or casein. Fining being the process of removing the fine particulate matter after the fermentation process such as yeast cells and proteins, to make the wine crystal clear.

Natural wine makers on the other hand eschew intervention and strive for as little manipulation in the wine making process as possible. They will therefore avoid filtration and fining and with it the need for any animal products, resulting in vegan friendly wines.

Therefore you will often find natural wines have a noticeable amount of sediment in the bottle, or appear hazy or cloudy. Natural winemakers tend to use the process of racking as the sole method of removing as much of the sediment from fermentation as possible. The wine will be allowed to settle in its fermentation vessel so as much sediment as possible settles at the bottom. The resulting clearer wine is then pumped to a new vessel with the sediment left behind.

Thomas Puéchavy
Les Turbulents 2023

Ancestral-method Chenin made using the earliest harvest selection for its abundance of mouthwatering acidity.  The two years sur lattes before disgorgement has taken the wine from quenching pet-nat into altogether more refined territory. Find out more.

  • Region Vouvray, Loire, France
  • Grapes Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£35

Quantity

Thomas Puéchavy
Le Rayon Blanc 2022

Perfectly balancing a low-key richness with a lucid clarity, this finely-tuned wine is bound with a sinew-y coil of acidity that cuts with phenomenal length. Find out more.

  • Region Vouvray, Loire, france
  • Grapes Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£35

Quantity

Thomas Puéchavy
Le Rayon Blanc 2023

Perfectly balancing a low-key richness with a lucid clarity, this finely-tuned wine is bound with a sinew-y coil of acidity that cuts with phenomenal length. Find out more.

  • Region Vouvray, Loire, France
  • Grapes Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£36

Quantity

Thomas Puéchavy
Les Vrilles 2022/23

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. Find out more.

  • Region Vouvray, Loire, France
  • Grapes Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£31

Quantity

Thomas Puéchavy
Les Turbulents 2023 MAGNUM

Ancestral-method Chenin made using the earliest harvest selection for its abundance of mouthwatering acidity.  The two years sur lattes before disgorgement has taken the wine from quenching pet-nat into altogether more refined territory - all the more special in the large format. Find out more.

  • Region Vouvray, Loire, France
  • Grapes Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£74.50

Quantity

Thomas Puéchavy
Dame-Jeanne 2020

Stunning one-off Moelleux-style wine from the heatwave 2020 vintage. Five years in the making, the wine was in barrel for two years before being moved to glass demijohn for another three. A meagre 100 bottles were made. Find out more.

  • Region Vouvray, Loire, France
  • Grapes Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£60

Quantity

Thomas Puéchavy
Les Doyennes Amphora 2023

From the prized 80 year-old vines of the domaine, this is an incredibly scarce micro-cuvée variant on Les Doyennes, and the product of a single 180-litre clay amphora. Find out more.

  • Region Vouvray, Loire, France
  • Grapes Chenin Blanc
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£54

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