Profile
2018Since
- Vineyard
- ≈2,5 ha of their own plus grapes from ≈4,5 ha of neighbouring growers, between Chinon and Saumur · calcareous tuff, flint and clays
- Varieties
- Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc
- In the vineyard
- Certified organic, hand harvest
- In the cellar
- Indigenous yeasts, ageing on lees in used barrel and foudre, minimal or zero sulphites
Sophie Kurdziel and Clément Maire are winemakers, qualified in Montpellier in 2009, and have lived in the Loire since 2011. In 2018 they took over a very old Cabernet Franc vineyard in the “Les Justices” site, in Ligré, within Chinon, and that is where the name of the house comes from. They make wine in Varrains, in Saumur-Champigny.
They farm about 2,5 hectares of their own and buy grapes from another 4,5 from neighbouring growers, all within 30 km of Saumur and certified organic. They harvest by hand, ferment with indigenous yeasts, age on their lees in used barrel or foudre and add nothing except, if needed, a few milligrams of sulphites.
Their wines
7 wines- La Vie est une Plage Chenin, Grolleau Gris, Cabernet Franc / Direct press / 4 months in stainless steel NEW
- La Bamboche 24 Cabernet Franc / Saint Cyr limestone soils in Bourg / 15-20 days maceration / 6-8 months in tank / Unfiltered NEW
- Juste 24 Chenin from different limestone plots / 12 months in stainless steel NEW
- La Guerrière 23 Chenin, Grolleau Gris, Cabernet Franc / Direct press / 9 months in used oak barrel NEW
- Sanguine 24 Grolleau Gris, Cabernet Franc / Carbonic maceration / 4 months in stainless steel NEW
- Palsambleu 23 Cabernet Franc / 40 days maceration / 9 months in used oak barrel NEW
- Les Justices 23 Cabernet Franc / Vines from 1947 / Flint soils / 9 months in demi-muids and tank NEW
White
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