Fresh Impression Blanc is a blend of grapes Patrice has sourced from producers who farm biodynamically. It consists of:
50% Pinot Gris from Domaine HUMBRECHT (Alsace) - 20% Grenache Blanc from Claude UGHETTO (Provence) - 20% Melon de Bourgogne from Domaine LANDRON CHARTIER (Loire-Atlantique) and 10% Direct Press Ploussard from Patrice's vineyards. 20% of the white grapes had a short maceration, the result is a super vibrant wine, full of life, with fresh flowers and white fruit aromas.
PATRICE BÉGUET, Arbois – Biodynamic, natural
Patrice Béguet’s winery is located in Mesnay, a little village a stone’s throw from Arbois in the Les Planches-près-Arbois gorge.
Patrice gave up a job as an IT Consultant in Paris, took the Wine Diploma at Beaune, and took over what has now grown to around four hectares of vines in Pupillin, Arbois, and his home village of Mesnay. He is committed to biodynamic methods, and is Demeter certified, quite unusual for such a small producer. In a region where biodynamics and natural winemaking are hardly a rarity, few are as committed to all aspects of ecology as Patrice, and few young vignerons work as hard as he does too.
All the wines are fermented only with wild yeasts, never chaptalised to increase the degree of alcohol and are produced from vines sprayed with the lowest possible doses of copper, thanks to the use of herbal concoctions which strengthen and regulate the vines’ natural defences.
Since 2015, which was Patrice’s best vintage to date, the wines are bottled without the addition of sulphur, and with no fining/ filtration either. This was normal for his reds, but a first for his whites. Patrice said that he sees a different wine emerge after those interventions and to be able to release the wine he has lived with through its élèvage, unchanged, is so satisfying. Above all, the wines keep their brightness of fruit and Patrice feels this is a big evolution in his winemaking.