Meet Your Vigneron
Fabien Jouves + Benjamin Taillandier
A Soif Solstice Event
Thursday November 6th
Tasting 6pm - 9pm
$10 to Taste - Free for Wine Club
Food by Motorshucker
Kitchen opens at 5pm
Happy Hours: 5-7pm
Bar Opens: 5pm
Shop Opens: 5pm
A word from the importer, Zev Rovine...
Fabien Jouves operates on a different scale than the rest of us when it comes to energy. The guy is always moving, thinking, working — and what he’s built in Cahors is incredibly unique. To name a few things, he’s constructed a pig farm in the forest above his vines. He’s planted his own nursery, complete with every ancient grape variety from the region in order to preserve and study them. He’s invested a great deal of time and effort into producing high quality wine with an accessible price tag. And this year, the VDF wines in particular are perfect expressions of these old grape varieties — but made with spirit, fun, and whimsey. Dude likes to laugh — and frankly, he's making wine fun again. That's not to be undervalued.
After launching his career in a conventional winery, Benjamin Taillandier rebelled to partake in the natural wine revolution (brave!) after meeting Jean-Baptiste Sénat in the early aughts. By 2007, he’d launched a project of his own nearby in the Languedoc, and 15 years later, he’s expanded the plot to 16 Hectares of biodynamically, organically farmed land — all of which he works by hand (while managing to keep his beloved local bar, Cantine du Curé, afloat during the summer tourist season). And while plenty of typical wines in the region are pointedly concentrated and high-alcohol, Taillandier is far more interested in producing lighter, fresher stuff (vin de soif, if you will).
