Jules Chauvet
Jules Chauvet was a wine négociant. He worked from La Chapelle-de-Guinchay in the Beaujolais.
Jules Chauvet was a winemaker and a taster. He also possessed the skills of a chemist, which he obtained at the school of chemistry at Lyon, then with Otto Warburg, with whom he maintained a long correspondence. He worked particularly on yeast, malolactic fermentation and carbonic maceration.
He also was a teacher in winemaking. As such he later inspired the movement of natural wines. He leaves books of quality, including The aroma of fine wine, the text of a lecture he delivered at the wine fair of Mâcon in 1950.
Own books
- L'Esthétique du vin, Jean-Paul Rocher publisher, Paris, 104 p.,
- Études scientifiques et autres communications , Jean-Paul Rocher publisher, Paris, 193 p.,
- L'Arôme des vins fins, in Le Vin en question, an interview with Hans Ulrich Kesselring, Jean-Paul Rocher publisher, Paris, 1998, 108 p.,
- Vins à la carte, tome 1, Jean-Paul Rocher publisher, Paris, 1998,
- La dégustation des vins, son mécanisme et ses lois in Évelyne Léard-Viboux & Lucien Chauvet, Jules Chauvet, naturellement..., Jean-Paul Rocher publisher, Paris, 2006, 113 p.,