Domaine Hughes Béguet Oh Yeah 2018
DOMAINE HUGHES BÉGUET OH YEAH 2018
Jura // France
A 100% Savagnin (ouillé) with a hazy appearance, delicate fruit on the nose, a touch of pineapple, great tension and a lively mineral finish.
The name of the wine is a play on the word ouillé (a method where winemakers top up new wine into barrels to keep them from oxidation and for an album by Charles Mingus.
The label on the bottle is an early twentieth century lithograph used by his grandfather, who had a licence to distill gentiane. Patrice has now adapted it for the domaine.
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Leaving the bright lights of Paris in 2009, Patrice Béguet and Caroline Hughes returned home to the little village of Mesnay in Jura to pursue his dream of making experimental, natural wine.
In the cave, Patrice is a keen experimentalist and makes use of extended macerations and a mixture of stainless steel tanks, egg-shaped barrels and old oak barrels.
Drawing inspiration from his love of jazz and the diverse scenery of Jura; his range of wines are electric, profoundly textural and complex.
