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His mother’s family kept a holiday home in Chevaline, a mountainside hamlet in the Haute-Savoie near ‘the cleanest lake in Europe,’ Lake Annecy, a body of water whose glacial origins are self-evident when set against this fairy-tale backdrop that scrapes the sky. So it was here that Jean-Yves would first fall for this kind of place, here that the prospect of a life in the mountains would tattoo itself to his mind. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThere are so many routes to the vine, however, and for Jean-Yves his path was first through the life borne out by his Parisian upbringing; he planned a career in pharmaceutical research and biochemistry. One thing led to another, and soon he was in Bordeaux studying biochemistry, where chance, curiosity, and mingling with the right bunch of oenologically-minded classmates lit the winemaking fuse. He worked several harvests across the world: notably in Oregon \u0026amp; New Zealand before Cornas with Thierry Allemand who then urged him to head north and harvest with the Alsatian whiz Bruno Schueller. This was all back in the early aughts. With experience comes confidence that can undergird the freedom to risk, to adventure. Newly minted with some of that hard-won harvest-work, Jean-Yves returned to a vision of the mountains; he could work some Savoyard vines and vinify in the cellar at his family’s holiday home in Chevaline. 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Then pressed to 80-gallon flex tank and a 14-gallon glass demijohn. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBottled unfined, unfiltered, no additional SO2. 12.5%ABV\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Montañuela (Camilla Carrillo)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44129676099842,"sku":"THREDLA0621G","price":58.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0090\/7372\/1401\/files\/CD6C49B2-6CD4-4676-B92A-5966AB12F612.jpg?v=1739481716"},{"product_id":"cascina-degli-ulivi-merla-bianca-2007","title":"Cascina degli Ulivi, \"Merla Bianca\" 2007","description":"\u003cp\u003e50% Traminer, 50% Sauvignon Blanc from the very top of the Montemarino vineyard. 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