Coup de Jus "Zeus Gonewild" VdF Rouge 2024

Coup de Jus "Zeus Gonewild" VdF Rouge 2024From the importer: Due to several years of tough harvests, they started a side project, buying organic grapes from friends who make wine in other regions, and bottling them under the Coup de Jus label. Certified organic Grenache from the south.

His long experience in large scale wine making adds a lot of perspective to this more artisanal approach

He went from getting heckled for making 'French' wines in California to being an elder statesman of the new-wave California movement of the past decade

The 2019 vintage of this wine was a pandemic staple for many of our customers

and 20% Clairette aged in concrete with no sulfur until bottling

and a subtle smoky spice on the finish

But it is still immensely crowd-friendly

I cannot wait to break this out at my next sunny weekend hang

The couple lived together in the small hilltop village of Laroin until 1987

From the little town of Paderna in the Colli Tortonesi region

it's big personality is not just fruit and alcohol (14

all who work without chemical treatments and work the vineyards by hand or with animals

let alone how to vinify grapes