Charles Dagand is most widely known for his involvement as one half of Domaine de l’Octavin. Following both a romantic and professional fallout with Alice Bouvot, he went on to start his own small project in the Jura under the name Carlito. After a couple of devastating harvests, Charles has since gone on to form a mostly negociant project under the name Karnage with Stéphane Planche, who runs the cave Les Jardins de St. Vincent in Arbois. Whereas the Carlito wines were avant garde leaning, heady and serious, the Karnage project hits the sweet spot of juice + headiness. Like a short and addictive song, these are humorous wines that don’t reveal everything at first, and keep you going back for more. While most of the cuvées are assembled from fruit bought from friends around France, others are from Charles’ own vineyard.