Exploring the lesser-known corners of the wine world, naturally. Above, Patrick Sullivan, producer of an impressive range of Chardonnays in Gippsland (credit: Tim Grey Photography).
Back in 1988, when Les Caves de Pyrène first began scouting out the weird and wonderful from France’s lesser-known reaches, the idea of ‘natural’ wine was nascent at best. Skip forward the best part of four decades and it seems Les Caves (as they are commonly known) were rather prescient: their wines, and the philosophy behind them, are now a firm fixture in wine bars, shops and restaurants up and down the country.
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