Éric Texier

Éric Texier spent over a decade as a nuclear engineer before deciding he wanted something different. Born in Bordeaux and based near Lyon since 1979, he began teaching himself about wine in the early 1990s, visiting traditional producers and reading widely. In 1993 he interned at Guffens in Burgundy, and by 1995 he had produced his first wines. Over the following years he steadily built one of the northern Rhône's most important natural wine estates.

Texier came to winemaking without family connections to the land. His first focus was the Brézème appellation, a small and largely forgotten enclave on the Rhône's left bank with rare limestone soils. He also began working in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban, another obscure right-bank zone on granite. By restoring both appellations to quality, he helped establish a new reference point for what the northern Rhône could express outside its famous names. His base is a 16th-century underground cellar in Charnay-en-Beaujolais, north of Lyon.

More on how they farm and work in the cellar in our Éric Texier producer profile.

Éric Texier Chat Fou 2022

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Éric Texier Adèle Clairette 2023

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