Bad Boy, the table wine
Jean-Luc Thunevin is a “bad boy.” So says Robert Parker. The maker of the vin de garage Valandraud may have turned heads thus far in his brief career as a vintner but now he’s turning tables–table wine, that is.
This vintage will be the first vintage of “Bad Boy,” the table wine, produced by Thunevin. Making a quality wine in the administrative category vin de table is a rarity in France.
“The appellation system is still very important for the French consumer,” Jean-Luc Thunevin told me recently. But he is willing to forego it for this wine in order to radically experiment with this wine.
Bad Boy will be a blend of 70-30 blend of merlot and grenache. The grapes for this unusual blend will come from St. Emilion and Thunevin’s property in the Roussillon, respectively. Michel Rolland will be the consulting enologist. “He’s the best blender,” Thunevin told me. The wine has not yet been priced.
The wine will have a picture of a black sheep on the label and Bad Boy in large font.
Vin de table is rare in France since restrictions prohibit producers from stating either the region or even the vintage on the label.
Related: “Merlot-grenache” [Dr. V]
tags: wine | French wine | AOC | Thunevin
On June 30th, 2011 at 2:29 pm ,Wanda wrote:
Could you please check on the detail once more?
For what I understood, “Bad Boy” by Thunevin is Merlot and Cabernet Franc.
However, his other wine called “Baby Bad Boy” is the blended of Merlot and Grenache.
I tasted Bad Boy 2005 last week..love it very much, just ordered 3 more ( 2006) by the French label ” Mouvais Garcon” also asked my friend who is coming from France to bring me a few bottles of Baby Bad Boy as well.
It’s the great wine in such a reasonable price, indeed!!