Before Simon Faure began making wine, he was an electrician, swapping wires for vines in 2023 when he purchased three hectares in the Mâconnais. His first vintage — 10,000 bottles of 100% Chardonnay — showed a level of sophistication and skill that Faure has continued to hone. Simon focuses on working in harmony with nature to produce wines that are pure expressions of the land from which they spring.

Grapes are hand-harvested in small 10-kilogram crates for sorting before they are left overnight in a cold cellar room and gently pressed in whole bunches using the traditional Champagne pressing method. Simon does minimal racking to avoid oxidation, and ferments wines in old oak barrels without sulfur, which is only occasionally used in small amounts at bottling. The result is wines that express a freshness, purity, and precision across the different labels. Where his Mâcon-Villages wines reveal notes of zesty fruits, his wines from Saint-Véran offer more mineral and savory qualities, compared to the Pouilly-Fuissé, which shows riper and sappier fruits. 

Already working across some of Mâcon’s most celebrated villages, Simon’s potential for growth — both across the region and in the cellar — is seemingly unlimited. Driven by a pure passion for wine that drew him to winemaking in the first place and an obvious respect for nature and its ways, there’s no stopping Simon Faure in its growth. By the next vintage, Simon hopes to arrive at over 17,000 bottles, including some red wines in addition to the Chardonnay he already produces.