Mas del Perié You #%$& My Wine?! 2021

You #%$& My Wine?! is Fabien Jouves' answer to the Cahors AOC rules that ban Jurançon Noir from the appellation. Because the grape is excluded, this wine is classified as Vin de France rather than Cahors AOC — and Jouves named it accordingly. The wine comes from a single 0.5-hectare plot in Trespoux-Rassiels, on calcareous soils at 350 meters elevation, farmed biodynamically with vines averaging 50 years old.

Grapes are harvested by hand and whole-cluster vatted in cement tanks and old oak barrels, macerating on skins for 7 days. Fermentation is spontaneous with indigenous yeasts. The wine ages for approximately 6 months in neutral oak and concrete before being bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal added SO₂ (around 15 mg/L).

Jurançon Noir, a natural cross of Folle Blanche and Malbec, produces a lighter, fresher style than Cahors Malbec typically delivers. Expect a medium-bodied red with bright red fruit, an herbal streak, and lively acidity — more aligned with a cru Beaujolais in weight than with the structured, tannic profile Cahors is historically known for. Production is around 3,000 bottles per vintage.