Rhône-Ardèche Profile: Christian Lericq, Tournon-sur-Rhône

A rare new voice in natural Saint Joseph.

Tall and taciturn, a beekeeper by trade, Christian Lericq has produced wine for twenty years, but only began commercializing it in 2016. A longtime comrade of regional natural wine luminaries like François Ribo, Hervé Souhaut, and Jean Delobre, Lericq never employed additives in vinification, working naturally by instinct and a paysan spirit of thrift. …