Henri Chauvet

In the spring of 2021 Henri Chauvet began his new dream of making natural wine after a career in banking and insurance, and settled in the village of Boudes in Auvergne purchasing 10.5 hectares of vines from a local winemaker. Henri, a relatively new arrival to the world of wine, had spent a few years working with winemakers predominantly in the Rhône valley and notably Thierry Allemand in Cornas. Boudes is a region that is generally little known, but the climate and soils around the village have a reputation for producing some of the most expressive Gamays, Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays of the region. Henri was drawn to the complexity of terroir here - there is a predominance of iron oxide rich clay and quartz and the volcanic basalt soils.