Caroline Gimenez

Anjou, France

Technically 2023 marks Caroline Gimenez’s first official vintage, but I feel like I’ve been coming across her wines for a couple of years now, imbibing her early micro-productions sourced from foraged fruit whilst visiting the underrated Le Denicheur in Paris since early 2022. The wines were pretty discreet then, but her aesthetic connection to Jerome Saurigny was obvious at first sip. Caroline, a filmmaker from Paris is Jerome’s wife, and the two became close as fellow protesters during the gilets jaunes movement of 2018-2019. Gimenez has moved on from solely producing wines foraged or from abandoned sites (although we are offering one in Preciado), and I would say that her 2023s add even more scope and context to Saurigny’s own growing and vinification practices as of late. With 2025 off to a completely disastrous start here in Los Angeles, Gimenez’s wines bring a certain energetic warmth that’s needed right now, a return to drinking just straight up good wine from an artistic maker that doesn’t require any extra intellectualizing, bottles meant to be shared with warmth and love.

Assata 2023
Cabernet Franc
$29

Descente de la Courtille 2023
Chenin Blanc
$32

Khardi Bis 2022+23
Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, Hybrids
$35

Preciado 2022
Chenin Blanc (from abandoned vines)
$21

Cenza 2022+23
Red & White Blend
$32