It can be said that natural wine has existed since man knows how to make wine. It is unlikely that there were exogenous yeasts or sulphites derived from the petroleum industry 8,000 years ago... But the modern history of the natural wine movement begins in the Beaujolais under the impetus of Jules Chauvet. He was a wine merchant and chemist, working on native yeasts, malolactic fermentation and carbonic maceration. His work and his philosophy of wine, to keep it simple, first convinced a handful of winemakers of the Beaujolais such as Marcel Lapierre. It was the beginning of a global movement that will radically change the approach of viticulture and winemaking: natural wine!