Wild Things N.V Chateau Gombaude Guillot and not quite a Castex

and not quite a Castex one either

a quarter of younger vines aged 7 and 11 years

and it is the rosé in the Amor Per La Terra range

in southern Beaujolais

these seventy to ninety year old Gamay vines give small yields of concentrated fruit

Wild Things N.V Chateau Gombaude Guillot and not quite a CastexWild Things carries no vintage, which generally means a blend across years and a wine built to a shape rather than to a calendar. Daisy Merrick and Antoine Lucchesi work out of Eckelsheim in Rheinhessen with four hectares of their own and fruit bought from organic and biodynamic growers. Native yeasts do the fermenting, nothing is fined or filtered, and sulphur stays out of it entirely. This is the direct one in the range: citrus, orchard fruit and a