Vins Mercuriales

2023 · Still · White · 12%

Sardone is one of the white bottlings in Antonin Roux and Aymar Carrol's Vins Mercuriales project, the post-2022 natural-wine cellar by the Rhône river in the Drôme Provençale. Roux is a Paris-based experimental music composer; Carrol owns a natural-wine bar in Marseille. The pair attended the inaugural BIM natural-wine fair in Arles, staged with Martin Texier in 2019, ran their first micro-cuvées in demijohns and secured a cave for their 2022 official first vintage. The cellar runs the standard natural-wine template: native yeasts, no additives, no added sulphur. 12% alcohol on the 2023 release; expect a brisk, savoury Rhône white reflecting the project's still-evolving production rather than a fixed regional template.

Native-yeast fermentation. No additives, no added sulphur. Vinified at the Rhône-side cave Antonin Roux and Aymar Carrol secured for their 2022 first official vintage.

2025 · Still · Red · 12%

Cinsault

Mihau is the Cinsault-led red in Antonin Roux and Aymar Carrol's Vins Mercuriales project, the post-2022 natural-wine cellar by the Rhône river in the Drôme Provençale. Cinsault is the unsung southern grape that has had a quiet renaissance in natural-wine circles for its ability to deliver light, fragrant, drinkable reds without the weight of Grenache or Syrah. The Mercuriales pair (Roux is a Paris-based experimental music composer, Carrol owns a natural-wine bar in Marseille) staged with Martin Texier in 2019 and ran their first micro-cuvées in demijohns before securing the Rhône-side cave. Cellar protocol: native yeasts, no additives, no added sulphur. 12% alcohol on the 2025 release; bright, peppery, drink-now Cinsault.

Native-yeast fermentation. No additives, no added sulphur. Vinified at the Rhône-side cave Antonin Roux and Aymar Carrol secured for their 2022 first official vintage.

2024 · Still · Red · 13%

Vins Mercuriales is the natural-wine project of Antonin Roux and Aymar Carrol, an experimental-music composer (Roux, Paris-based) and a natural-wine bar owner (Carrol, Marseille). The pair attended the inaugural BIM natural-wine fair in Arles, staged with Martin Texier in 2019, vinified their first micro-cuvées in demijohns, and secured a cave by the Rhône river for their 2022 official first vintage. Gironet is one of the cellar's reds, sourced from organic plots around the Drôme Provençale. The cellar runs the standard natural-wine protocol: native yeasts, no additives, no added sulphur. 13% alcohol; a Rhône red that reads more like a thoughtful natural-wine project than a regional standard, with the post-2022 cellar still in build-out mode.

Native-yeast fermentation. No additives, no added sulphur. Vinified at the cellar by the Rhône river that Antonin Roux and Aymar Carrol secured in 2022.