{"title":"Éric Texier","description":"\u003cp\u003eÉric 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTexier 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/eric-texier\"\u003eÉric Texier producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chat-fou-eric-texier-natural-wine","title":"Éric Texier Chat Fou 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed after the winemaker's spirited cat, Éric Texier Chat Fou 2022 blends approximately 50% Grenache with 30% Cinsault and 20% Clairette from organically farmed, south-facing vineyards on granite and gneiss soils in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban, Ardèche. Vines average 30 years old. Éric Texier partially destems the fruit, co-fermenting the varieties with indigenous yeasts in open concrete tanks. A short four-to-five-day maceration extracts color and flavor without heaviness. Chat Fou ages 12 to 18 months in concrete on fine lees, then bottles unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulfur. The result is a fresh, light \"vin de bistro\" style red.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Éric Texier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43824980951256,"sku":"ERICTEXIER-CHATFOU","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/chat-fou-eric-texier-natural-wine-deslop.png?v=1784584880"},{"product_id":"eric-texier-adele","title":"Éric Texier Adèle Clairette 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom granite soils in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban in the Ardèche, Éric Texier Adèle 2023 showcases what Clairette can achieve in the northern Rhône's cooler reaches. The blend—95% Clairette with 5% Marsanne—comes from organically farmed vines hand-harvested and whole-bunch pressed. Fermentation proceeds spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in cement tanks, followed by six to eight months on fine lees. Éric Texier Adèle 2023 sees no sulfur until a minimal addition at bottling and remains unfined and unfiltered. The wine's name pays homage to Adèle Blanc-Sec, the heroine of a French comic strip whose surname translates to \"White-Dry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Éric Texier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45207031939288,"sku":"ERICTEXIER-ADELE","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/eric-texier-adele-deslop.png?v=1784585869"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/eric-texier.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}