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Vins MercurialesDrôme Provençale, Rhône Valley, France
About this wine
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.
Winemaking
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.