Fabien Jouves Wine

About the time a young Fabien Jouves was entertaining the idea of leaving the quietvillage of Trespoux-Rassiels to study medicine, his parents told him they would probablysell off the family vineyards. Now some would think that this was a cruel trick forany parent to play, but we’re glad they did as it prompted Fabien to study viticulturein Bordeaux instead. In 2004 he began converting the vineyards to organic farmingand shortly after pushed further into bio-dynamics. Upon his return in 2006 heestablished Mas del Perie. Today, he is still young by anyones standards, but Fabien isnow one of the shining lights of the Cahors appellation, helping lift the reputation ofthis much maligned wine region back to it’s former glory days. His wines offer purity,intensity and volume without resorting to using lots of new oak, aggressive lees stirringand/or ‘micro-oxegenation’. Instead he uses a mixture of vessels, mostly concrete andold oak barrels of various sizes. Ferments are wild and the addition of sulphur is littleto none.