Macabeuh 2022

Name: Macabeuh 2022
Brand: La Combe Aux Reves
SKU: lacombeauxreves-macabeuhvinblanc-2022-14.5%-750ml
Price: 75.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$75.00

Grégoire and Judi Perron farm two and a half hectares at Journans, a village on the edge of the Bugey where the Jura massif runs into the Alpine foothills. Their holdings are scattered over more than twenty parcels, many of them only a few rows wide. In 2022 there was not enough fruit to go round, so they bought Macabeu from a friend in the south of France and made this instead. Macabeu has never grown up here and never will, which is more or less the point. Left on its skins it gives dried apricot, orange peel and a firm chalky tannin, with the bitter twist at the close that makes skin contact worth the trouble. Nothing added, sulphur included.

Pairing Suggestions

A wine that exists because the harvest came up short, which is reason enough.
Its bitter edge cuts straight through fat: murtabak, or roti john.
Or grilled aubergine with tahini, and flatbread to push it around with.

About La Combe Aux Reves

Grégoire and Judicaëlle didn't set out to build a domaine. They found an old Poulsard vineyard — over a century old, a few rows at a time — and that was enough to begin. They settled in Journans in 2010, a quiet village at the edge of Bugey where the Jura massif meets the Alpine foothills, and began patiently assembling what would become La Combe aux Rêves: the valley of dreams.

Today they farm 2.5 hectares across more than twenty parcels, each one found slowly, many just a handful of rows. The grape varieties read like a map of the mountains they're in — Mondeuse and Altesse from the Alpine tradition, Poulsard and Savagnin with Jura in their roots, alongside older rarities like Gueusche Noir that few have thought to preserve. The oldest vines are over a century old. Nothing synthetic touches them; the land is neither mowed nor ploughed.

In the cellar, Grégoire works without additions — no sulphur, no fining, no filtration. He ferments across barrels, amphora, and small tanks, choosing vessel by instinct rather than formula. Yida has visited twice, and what comes through in person is the same quality you find in the glass: a winemaker who trusts his land completely and doesn't feel the need to prove it. Terremere, their white, carries the tension of altitude — saline, chalky, and alive. Deuzmons de Minuit is all mountain fruit and quiet depth, the kind of red that rewards a slow evening.

Photos taken by Daniel Koh

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