2021 Henri Chauvet À fleur de peau

WINEMAKER: Henri Chauvet
REGION: Auvergne, FR
VARIETAL: Chardonnay
VITICULTURE: Organic

100% chardonnay, fermented whole cluster with native yeasts and aged in used barrels for one year. Unfined, unfiltered, with a touch of SO2.

Henri Chauvet has taken over the estate of Annie Sauvat in Boudes, an important winegrowing village in the Auvergne that is near to the heart of the region itself, located within what’s known as the Puy-de-Dome. Clocking in at 10.5 hectares, the land was planted to vine from scratch in the 1970s by Claude Sauvat and ever since had become a kind of hallmark of viticultural endeavor, engaged in the same kind of recuperation of history that many natural winemakers seek; Auvergne (and indeed Boudes) was a long flourishing winegrowing region from time (Roman) immemorial until the phylloxera blight of the late 19th century.