Raphaëlle Guyot

Raphaëlle Guyot is one of those winemakers who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty to bring life back to a terroir that’s rarely in the spotlight: the Yonne. After a BTS in viticulture and oenology in Beaune—where she trained at the iconic Burgundy estate of Thibault Liger-Belair—she kept learning from the best, with stints at domaines with wildly different approaches, like Vincent Pinard, La Grande Tiphaine, Cyril Fhal, and Ramaz Nikoladze in Georgia. After plenty of wandering, Raphaëlle launched a tiny, short-lived négoce with Antoine Lienhardt—just to see if she could really make wine on her own. She could. So she returned to her native Yonne, took over a run-down farm in Saint-Colombe-sur-Loing, built her own cellar, started growing organic grains, and immediately converted a handful of vineyard plots to organic—including some that had been swallowed up by brambles! In the cellar, she crafts natural wines with zero fluff and zero flaws—true expressions of grape and place.