Bonhomme 'Le Telquel' Rouge 2023

Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme is continuing the work he and Thierry Puzelat began many years ago. It was Thierry's idea to expand beyond his family's Tue-Boeuf wines and purchase fruit from neighbors and other growers, allowing him to make more of the easy-drinking natural wine he loved while encouraging others to farm their vines organically, paying them more than they would get for selling conventionally-farmed fruit to others. Looking back after a decade plus, this has been crucially transformative for the region and many vignerons. When Thierry picked Pierre-O to partner with, he was a high-school dropout who had just been working harvests at Tue-Boeuf. Yet Pierre-O has kept this project at the forefront of Loire natural wines since 2013, when Thierry went back to Tue-Boeuf full-time. Thierry knew what he was doing when teaming up with Pierre-O. The name Telquel is, surprise surprise, a pun. It's a riff on teckel (the French for Dachshund) spun to sound like the phrase for "as is". The i