ZoomTchiki Tchiki2022
Belly Wine ExperimentAuvergne, France
About this wine
Tchiki Tchiki is one of the rarer monovarietal cuvées in the Belly Wine Experiment range, built around Sauvignon Blanc rather than the producer's signature Catalan-Auvergne blends. Claire Sage and Aimé Duveau work the same way across every bottling: native-yeast fermentation, no inputs in the cellar, no fining or filtration, no added sulfur. The 12% alcohol matches the house preference for early picks and restrained extraction. Expect the wine to read more like an Auvergne natural white (stony, savoury, brisk) than a textbook Loire Sauvignon, with the variety's overt grass-and-citrus fingerprint intentionally muted by the cellar approach. A short, low-alcohol bottle from a producer whose project is to test the limits of what a single grape can carry.
Winemaking
Native-yeast fermentation, direct press. No inputs in the cellar, no fining or filtration, no added sulfur. House preference for early picks keeps the alcohol at 12%.