‘Veronnet Rouge’

Gamay, Mondeuse & Pinot Noir, Savoie, France

For lovers of tentless sleeping under the stars & freeze dried moon cheese packets. Fresh to Ontario, Corentin Houillon is the gorp king of Savoie, slingin’ exceptional zero-zero wines that feel like a crossover of alpine and rhone profiles. With a family full of historic winemaking knowledge, you could say he was born into it, but through dedication and experience (try, working for Pierre Overnoy, Stéphane Tissot & Dominique Derain), came to develop his own voice and point of view. Assembled from two different types of aromatic, tart and berried gamay (65%, one tinturier, one not, half left whole bunch for 15 days of skin contact), with savoury mondeuse (15%, left whole bunch for 21 day skin contact) and lifted pinot noir rounded out the lifted blend (15%, half left whole bunch for 17 days skin contact). All grown on lower slopes of ‘jet’ soils (primarily sands – around 95%, with 5% clay and lot of stones!), picked by hand and left on the skins for 21 days (with 40% whole bunches), to pull rough n’ rowdy tannins that show up at just the right moment. Brushing your lover’s hair, a lung full of forest air, SALT, dirty red currants, lil tonic bean wink, shrivelled pomegranate, bloody tannins meets elk sticks, soft wood & crumbling castle minerality. Enjoy with wild hare terrine spread across divot-adorned saltines.