Vinification
Organically farmed 50 year-old Cabernet Franc vines on clay-silex over clay-limestone soils, situated on along a south-facing slope. Very low yields (20hl/ha), hand-harvest, manual destemming, 3-week natural fermentation in open-topped wooden vats. 12-24 month elevage in wooden barrels, some of which are new. Bottled unfiltered with minimal added sulphites.
Domaine Breton
Catherine and Pierre Breton: natural wine pioneers, masters of Bourgueil Cabernet Franc and close friends of Chabrol. Domaine Breton is a century-old family operation that has been bottling wines under their own name since 1985. In the late eighties they started their conversion to first organic and later biodynamic farming, and already in the early nineties they had fully adopted the “nothing added-nothing taken away” approach to winemaking. These bon-vivants are beloved throughout the wine world and their domaine is one of our favourite pit-stops during our wine trips.