Loire valley
The Loire Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the 3rd largest appellation region in France, comprising a total of 51 appellations and 4 IGP (Indication Géographique Protégée). The vineyards stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to Central France and are dotted between castles, rolling hills and noble landscapes. It is a cool-climate region, which means that the reds tend to be on the lighter side and lower in alcohol.
The Loire Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the 3rd largest appellation region in France, comprising a total of 51 appellations and 4 IGP (Indication Géographique Protégée). The vineyards stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to Central France and are dotted between castles, rolling hills and noble landscapes. It is a cool-climate region, which means that the reds tend to be on the lighter side and lower in alcohol.
Noella Morantin - Touraine
Noella is originally from Brittany. In 2001 she quit her job and started to learn how to make wine by following a BTS viti/vini school diploma where she trained with Agnes and Rene Mosse until 2003. In 2004 she met Junko Arai, the owner of the vineyard Les Bois Lucas. Noella became the winemaker of the estate. In 2008, she had an opportunity to start on her own vineyard and rented 8 hectares from Clos Roche Blanche and acquired 4 more hectares of Ex-Bois Lucas land. The vines are organically grown and certified by Ecocert since 2008. Noella’s approach include: hand harvested grapes, indigenous yeast, and no filtration. Noella intentionally declassifies all her cuvees to Vin de France.
Domaine Bregeon - Muscadet/Gorges Loire
The winery is based 30mins drive south-east of Nantes, near Clisson Village, one of the Cru Class from the Muscadet regions. The origin of the estate dates to 1880. Michel Bregeon is one of the pioneers of high-quality Muscadet and took over in 1975 a small 2.5 hectares vineyard, and today the estate covers 8.5 hectares. In 2011 Fred Lallier, a local, took over Michel’s vineyard. Fred was guided by Michel who shared his knowledge and skills of the characteristics of this terroir. I met Fred in 2018. Michel joined us for the tasting and told stories from the winery. The winery is planted with 90% Melon de Bourgogne and 10% Gros Plant vines with an average of 65 years old and a density of 6500vines/hectares. The main characteristic of the white Muscadet is the age on lees. “Sur Lie” is a technique consisting of ageing the wine without separating it from its lees. It adds roundness, complexity with great cellaring potential and without the use of oak maturation at all.
Domaine La Piffaudiere - Touraine sur Cher
This Artisan winery based at Monthou sur Cher in Touraine, between Sancerre and Saumur. Created in 2008 by Olivier Bellanger the winery has now 11 hectares with an average of 40 year-old vines. It was certified Organic since 2011. It is a story where a person, with no family roots in the world of wine, can start a winery and follow they passion and dream. Most of the wines are labelled AOP Touraine.
Domaine Timothee Delalle - Touraine
The winery is situated west of Tours between Vouvray and Bourgueil in the Loire valley. In 2018, Timothee Delalle took over 8 hectares that were previously owned by Domaine Huet, with average of 40 years old vines. This domaine has 2 different soil characteristics. At Luynes, the 5 hectares are on a plateau resting on a bed of limestone bed with sand, clay and quartz. At Fondettes, the 3 hectares are facing south, above the limestone be, the soil is made from clay and chalk.
Domaine Vigneau-Chevreau - Vouvray
Since 1875, the Vigneau-Chevreau family has farmed the chalky soils of this 33-acres Vouvray domaine, planted entirely with Chenin Blanc. Jean-Michel Vigneau began steering the family domaine in an organic direction in the early 90s and by 995 Vigneau-Chevreau received its biodynamic certification from Ecocert. The most disciplined of organic cultures, tenets of biodynamics include the natural harnessing of universal forces, scheduling specific vineyard work according to the Maria Thun lunar calendar, and use of homeopathic preparations on both vines and in the soil. The Vigneau family produce a textbook line-up of Vouvrays from their own vines and also manage Clos de Rougemont of the historic Abbey of Marmoutier. One of the grandest churches in western Europe during medieval times, the Abbey hosted popes and kings. However, over the centuries, the abbey and its vineyard fell into disrepair, with the final blows being dealt by the French Revolution and the ravages of phylloxera. In the early 1990s, Vigneau-Chevreau was awarded vineyard rights to the Clos (for 50 years) in exchange for restoring it to its original grandeur. The site was replanted with a careful selection of vines from Vigneau-Chevreau’s best terroirs. The results have been impressive.
Domaine Serge Laloue - Sancerre
The Domaine Serge Laloue was founded in the early 1930s by François and Simone Laloue who were farmers of cereals, vines, tobacco. In 1960, their son Serge came to work on the farm and focused on viticulture. He began by working his parents’ small vineyard and then on his own, he expanded the estate which now totals approximately 20 hectares of vines. Located 200 km from Paris, the 2,800 hectares of Sancerre’s vineyards stretch across the upper and middle parts of the surrounding hills. 75% of these vineyards produce white Sancerre (Sauvignon Blanc) and the remaining 25% produce red and rosé Sancerre (Pinot Noir). Domaine Serge Laloue wines are made from a blend of grapes from three different terroirs: Siliceous clay soils located at the tops of the slopes, "caillottes" (little stones), that are very stony and calcareous located at mid-slope, and sandy clay terroirs that are rich in iron located at the bottom of the slopes. In 2019, they began the process for obtaining organic agricultural certification. This is the result of many years of orienting the vineyard management techniques in this direction. Their first verified organic vintage will be in 2023.
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