Natty: January 2025

Vincent Couche

Voulez Vous Couche Avec Moi?

Champagne/Burgundy

I can’t believe I get to share a wine like this with you all. In a couple years, Vincent Couche’s wines will be unobtainable, mark my words. Vincent is one of the most exciting and boundary-breaking young winemakers in Champagne. A strict follower of biodynamics—and quite the poet—Vincent decided to reach out a friend of his in Burgundy in the village of Nuits St Georges to farm a parcel of Pinot Noir to create a wine in Champagne with Burgundy grapes. This wine is an explosion of fruit, yet has great Burgundian forest floor vibes. Crush this bottle.

Pairing: An evening of Netflix & Chill

Fun fact: Couche means “to bed” in French, So this wines names is quite suggestive ;)

Domaine Serol

Eclat de Granite

Gamay from the Loire

Beaujolais doesn’t have a monopoly on great Gamay coming from France, and to prove that look no further than Domaine Serol in the Loire Valley. A father & daughter team are crafting some serious— yet entirely too enjoyable—Gamay on hard volcanic granite soils, farming biodynamically, and focusing on returning the land to its best self. The only non-native animal they permit to roam the vineyards is their Golden Retriever, named, of course, Gamay.

Pairing: Everything Salmon With Creamy Caper Sauce

Fun fact: Gamay the Golden Retriever is expecting puppies!

Domaine Viret

Energies

Syrah and other Rhone grapes

Philippe Viret takes farming to a whole different level, practicing Cosmoculture. Cosmoculture can be seen as a sort of extension of biodynamics. And, like biodynamics, Cosmoculture involves practices which may seem at first arcane or esoteric but are in fact connected to ancient wisdom—to knowledge humans cultivated and shared for millennia before we allowed technology to begin to supplant it. Of course, this would all threaten to become grand eco-philosophical performance art if Philippe’s wines were simply ordinary; thankfully, they are among the most soulful and evocative wines in the entire region.

Pairing: Pork Chops in Pipian

Fun fact: The crystal seen on the bottle is the same one Philippe wears around his neck.