Not All Who Wander: L'Homme Perdu

Bohemia vigneron Pavel Tománek deploys dried grape infusions and long barrel aging to produce radical, anachronistic natural wine at the northernmost limit of Czech viticulture.

L’Homme Perdu vigneron Pavel Tománek. On left is Prague-based wine writer Lucie Kohoutová.

Bohemia vigneron Pavel Tománek is a retired ceramicist who in 2016 began farming a tiny 0.4ha parcel outside the town of Řehlovice, near the German border south of Dresden. An avowed Francophile, he calls his winery L’Homme Perdu - “the Lost Man” - in reference to …