Bernard Vallette: Wine Makes Better Choices Than Most Vignerons

An interview with southern Beaujolais vigneron Bernard Vallette, a longtime biodynamics practitioner who, since 2013, has collaborated with natural winemaking legend Jacques Néauport.

Bernard and Agnès Vallette outside their home in Lachassagne.

Lyon is France’s third-largest city. Yet its peculiar isolation from international influences remains sufficient to permit sensitive, innovative vignerons like Agnes and Bernard Vallette to subsist in relative anonymity right on its doorstep in the Pierre Dorées. On a farm in Lachassagne pass…