Renewal in Leynes: Les Vignes de Paulette

Clara Cauquil and Simon Mialon work on both sides of the Beaujolais-Mâconnais border, farming several vineyards obtained from retired Leynes natural winemaker Pierre Boyat.

Few zones of Beaujolais-Villages have the sheer personality of Leynes, at the northern frontier of the Beaujolais, where gamay often takes on a blackness and concentration reminiscent of gamay d’Auvergne. Here, too, a significant history of natural winemaking, spearheaded in the late 1990s by Philippe Jambon and taken up by several neighbors since, has …