Geneviève, Jean-Claude et Jeanne Chanudet
Domaine Chamonard
Villié-Morgon, Beaujolais

Jean-Claude Chanudet, alias Le Chat, is part of the first generation of natural wine producers. After a career in the bottling industry, this winemaker’s son took over in 1989 the domain of his father-in-law, Joseph Chamonard, who was already working without chemical treatments in the vineyards. With the help of his wife Geneviève, he enhances the old vines with his farmer’s good sense and his free and precise winemaking sensitivity. A lot of work is done in the vineyard where everything is done by hand, without chemicals, and with light labour. In the cellar, the wines undergo long macerations and maturation in old barrels to avoid “marking” the wines and to maintain their drinkability.

This work results in wines with an unsuspected capacity of keeping! Today it is their daughter, Jeanne Chanudet, who is taking over the domain, preserving and continuing the heritage of her parents.