ZoomTombée du Ciel2024
Petite NatureArdèche, France
About this wine
Tombée du Ciel is Pauline Maziou's solo-Gamay bottling at Petite Nature in Quintenas (northern Ardèche), where she started with half a hectare in 2019 and built the project from a basement cellar with mostly hand-operated equipment. Vineyards are organically farmed with strong biodynamic influence, and the cellar runs without additives or added sulphur, native yeasts only. Gamay in the northern Ardèche reads quite differently from Beaujolais: the granite and clay-granite soils push the variety toward dark fruit, peppery lift and a more savoury finish, with the early-pick house style holding the alcohol to 11% on the 2024 release. A useful natural-wine Gamay for accounts looking past the standard Beaujolais reference points.
Winemaking
Native-yeast fermentation. No additives, no added sulphur. Hand-worked vineyards under organic and strongly biodynamic-influenced practice. Early-pick house style keeps alcohol at 11%.