Professional Ratings

• 95 Wine & Spirits
  Still in his twenties, Charly Thevenet worked with his father, Jean-Paul, as well as with Marcel Lapierre, before purchasing his own 7.5-acre parcel in Regnie. The vines, planted in 1932 and 1946, grow in the foothills of the Cote du Py; he farms them with strategies adopted from biodynamics, sustaining the health of the vines and the microbiology of the vineyard, including yeasts that he then allows to spontaneously ferment the grapes as whole clusters. Aged in old Burgundy barrels and bottled without fining or filtering, his 2016 is immediately welcoming. It’s a delicate, ethereal beauty that may give you the kind of silky satisfaction that’s rare outside of Chambolle, here delivered as the essence of Regnie, as in gamay, granite and some talented microbes doing remarkably precise work. You might find green-peppercorn spice, rose-petal perfume and elegant red fruit, or you may just find a glorious wine that will have you rethinking Beaujolais.
• 92 James Suckling
  Extremely perfumed and bright with aromas and flavors of orange peel, lemongrass, dark berries and bark. Medium body, fine tannins and a flavorful finish. Solid and focused. Drink or hold.
• 91 Decanter
  An old-vine wine, made from a vineyard with an average of 70 years, that is planted on pink granite soils. Pure and lifted with Pinot-like notes; the palate is delicate and refined but packed with inviting fruit. Well balanced and digestible.
• 91 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Charly Thévenet's 2016 Régnié is lovely, wafting from the glass with a decadent bouquet of sweet red and black plums, cherries and dried flowers, mingling with incipient notes of sweet soil. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, lavishly textural and velvety, with an ample core of succulent fruit and a richly savory finish. This is a deliciously gourmand Régnié that I'd be inclined to attack in its comparative youth.