Andréa Calek “A Toi Nous”

Syrah/Grenache. Andrea, a former Czech soldier, came to France to be inspired and fell in love with the natural wines of Beaujolais. Working in the Ardeche, Calek has painstaking viticulture combined with non-interventionist, painstakingly laissez-faire vinification, porducing some the purest expressions of Syrah and Grenache in Southern France. He actually grows other varietals and makes other wines for himself in order to learn as much as he can about his particular terroir. But Syrah, Grenache and Carignan are his mainstays. He believes in carbonic maceration as long as it doesn’t mask typicity and terroir. These are indeed stunning, even emotional expressions of a unique terroir, and they vary greatly year by year. ORGANIC and NATURAL.