Renaud Manguette & Père · Funambulle

Renaud Manguette & Père

In the Manguette family, I first ask for the son (Renaud), and only then for the father (Daniel). It was in response to his son’s passion that Daniel Manguette, a landscape gardening entrepreneur, turned his life upside down and had a winery built in 2024 in an annex of the family home. Trained in the Jura and later honing his skills with pioneering winemakers in France (including Fabien Jouve) and abroad, Renaud works according to the principles of urban wineries — sourcing grapes from biodynamic growers, with vinification and ageing carried out in-house. The difference is that he is not based in a city, but in the countryside, in the village of La Gleize in the province of Liège. With a production of around 5,000 bottles per year, Renaud describes his wines as “natural, yet clean and precise” — which is why, after a vinification without additives, he adds only a very small amount of sulphites at bottling.

Funambulle

Although it contains 0 g/l of sugar, this pet'nat gives an impression of sweetness that comes from harvesting very ripe grapes – in this case, Riesling and Sylvaner from the Domaine de l'Envol in Alsace, grown biodynamically. After slow fermentation (with the vats kept at 20°C during the winter), the "Funambulle" was aged on lees for a year before disgorging.