Tomomoto

TOmomoTO, from Auvergne vineyards to Beaujolais, without adding anything

Thomas and Maureen, a winery with two voices

Created in 2024 by Thomas Besson and Maureen Leprêtre, TOmomoTO brings together their nicknames, “toto” and “momo,” and two playgrounds: the south of Auvergne and the Beaujolais. The grapes meet in their Saint-Julien cellar, where they are vinified without any inputs. Alongside the estate wines, their négociant cuvées bear the name Permapinard.

Old vines and resistant grape varieties

In Retournac, in Haute-Loire, the duo is restoring very old vines interspersed with gardens and orchards. Since 2023, new plantings of disease-resistant grape varieties have been added to this vineyard, which is cultivated without treatments, fertilizers, or tillage. Basalt, granite, and grey marl make up this part of their landscape.

In the south of Beaujolais, the Gamay des Palières, aged 40 to 108 years, grow on the blue stones. The soils remain covered with grass and have not been worked since 2018. Thomas and Maureen continue this approach with plant-based preparations and low doses of copper and sulfur. In 2026, three small plots will complete the estate, in Perréon and Saint-Étienne-la-Varenne.

From the manual press to capped bottles

In the cellar, work is done on a small scale: long pressings with a manual ratchet press, fiber tanks, buried amphorae, demijohns, and old barrels that have already held at least ten wines. All the wines are declared as Vin de France, with a claimed freedom of interpretation.

The bottling is done by hand and by gravity, and the bottles are sealed with a capsule to avoid variations caused by corks. The wines are deliberately not stabilized: a slight effervescence may therefore invite you to open them in advance and let them breathe for a while.