This is Pierre-O's most available red wine. It is made with purchased fruit from two farmers working organically and some of Pierre-O's grapes. In particularly complicated vintage, he may source from other regions, particularly the southern Beaujolais.
The name Telquel is, surprise surprise, a pun. It's a riff on Dachshund hound spun to sound like "as is". The idea here to make a simple wine table that reflects the vintage. The blend changes every year but is always Gamay dominant.
The wine's "Un Poil Dur..." tag line extends the canine pun. It literally translates to "A hard hair" but is slang for "rough around the edges."
Organically farmed, whole-cluster, 15 days maceration. Fermented in tronconic wooden vats and aged six months in barrels. Pierre-O tries to bottle this with without the addition of S02 (2018, 2019, 2020) but is not averse to adding 15mg per liter before bottling if deemed necessary.
