We recently welcomed Konrad Pixner’s wines to our shelves and they are blowing us away with their value. These four wines are refreshingly varied, and each illustrate a different facet of the Terrasses du Larzac while carrying Konrad’s fingerprint.

Konrad is farming completely organically and trusting nature to do what it does best. Hand-harvesting and fermentation with native yeast are standard and an obvious choice for Konrad. His philosophy is summed up best in his own words: “…it is in the vines that my wines are made.”

This is not just another small family domaine with a nice story. Jean-Baptiste Chardigny brought serious pedigree back to the estate, having spent seven years working with Domaine Leflaive and its biodynamically farmed vineyards in the Mâconnais. Those lessons now run through Chardigny’s own farming, with the family applying the same rigorous, biodynamic-minded approach across their vineyards for the past five years.

That meeting point between Beaujolais and white Burgundy is what makes the range so interesting. In Saint-Amour, their Gamay comes from low-trained vines on remarkably stony soils, with pink granite visible across parts of the vineyard floor. Their style is clean and elegant, a hybrid of Cote du Nuits Pinot and elegant semi-carbonic Gamay.

Further north, the granite gives way to the clay-limestone and hard limestone soils of Saint-Véran. Their chardonnay sites tend to be situated in cooler pockets, giving a mineral driven freshness to all of their whites.

Jean-Baptiste Semmartin’s wines are precise, direct and complex. It is easy to see why they have gained cult status, these wines aren't like anything else I've tasted.

We have 2 wines from his 2023 vintage that are rarely available. No limits, no conditions, but when it’s gone, it’s gone.

This is not your average story of how a cult winemaker came to be, if there is such a thing. Jean-Baptise Semmartin went from representing France nationally as a fencer to making wine back home in Jurançon. Despite time in Burgundy and Bordeaux, it may be Jura whose influence we see most in his wines. He works with careful deliberate oxidation to give the wine stability and allowing him to work without any fining, filtration, or even sulphites.

The results are wines with crazy intensity; rich and heady with the aromatics we know of Petit and Gros Manseng, but as precise as the épée he put down.

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