Champagne Laurent-Gabriel

Voir : CHAMPAGNE LAURENT-GABRIEL: "In 1982, Daniel Laurent took over the family estate from his parents. His father used only a tiny part of his harvest for making his Champagne for a few friends and clients, the rest of the grapes being sold to traders. In Autumn 1982, Daniel decided to produce his own Champagne, with the assistance of his wife, and they registered their present trademark, 'Champagne Laurent-Gabriel'. The estate is a very small one, 2.5 hectares of vines producing about 18,000 bottles of Champagne per year."

Château Le Tuquet

Voir la suite : CHATEAU LE TUQUET: "Le Tuquet and its vines are to be seen on royal maps of Belleyme dating back to the beginning of the 18th century. The charterhouse was built in around 1730 (the south façade is by Victor Louis). In the first edition of the Féret Guide (Ch. Cocks 1868) Le Tuquet was classified as the leading wine in Beautiran, a status which has continued to be confirmed in the successive editions of the guide published to this day."

Cave Les Vins de Roquebrun

With a soil schisteux important of more of 500 hectares and a total production of approximately 23000 hl per year, whose 1.5 millions of bottles in Controlled Origin Denomination of Saint-Chinian, the cellar of Roquebrun, created in 1967 of the viticulteurs independent, becomes an enterprise of international scale having fixed of objectives of production and ambitious marketing. In besides, the cellar has endowed since few tools oenologiques perfected whose floret is the tray of maceration carbonic a capacity of 32 vats allowing the inification by whole grape maceration, but also of pneumatic press, the égrappoirs, a chain of bottleneck, an integrated computer management as well as a meteorological station and three great underground cellars air conditioned. All these implemented ways added to the know-how of professional and the technical team attachés to the cellar, are witnesses and actors the creation of great wines from soil. It results some a very extensive range going from the rosy and red AOC, as well as the white of the Languedoc, until the wine of Country of Oc by passing by an excellent Cartagène and a delicious wine to belated Muscat vintages. The fermented supple, sophisticates and fruity but also great powerful and complex vintage owners nevertheless a real fineness of soil.

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Domaine de La Guilloterie

Managed by the Duveau family for several generations, the vineyard of Domaine de la Guilloterie today covers 50 hectares. Set to the south of the Loire and on the banks of its tributary the Thouet, this area benefits from weather conditions that are particularly favourable to vine-growing. On this clay-limestone soil, the vine-varieties flourish, giving expressive, characterful, distinctive wines. Domaine de la Guilloterie produces an excellent Saumur white, made exclusively with the Chenin variety. It is fresh, with highly distinctive, flattering aromas. The Saumur red is supple and very aromatic, with good body enabling a short ageing period.

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Château Tour Saint-Pierre

Grown with the greatest care and attention since 1928 by generation after generation of the Goudineau family, Château Tour de Saint Pierre produces an perfectly-balanced wine which is supple, fine and mellow with all the characteristics which have built the international reputation of the wines of Saint-Emilion. We should emphasize the fact that this magnificent estate is farmed without using chemical weedkillers or insecticides. As well as this, the grapes are picked by hand, in the traditional way. A remarkable wine, racy with a beautiful garnet-red colour, a full-bodied, aromatic wine, rich in colour and substance with a long bouquet of ripe red fruit, leather and underwood. Excellent for laying down, characteristic of the appellation, full-bodied and spicy with firm, ample tannins and a lot of distinction.

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Domaine Pabiot

A family estate of 21 hectares, including some parcels of vines of more than 80 years old, run by two sons, Gérard and Bernard, who combine traditional practices with the modern techniques they have learned in legendary wine-growing areas: Beaune, Macon and Bordeaux. The estate is planted on the best hillsides overlooking the Loire, with very representative soils of the region: hard limestone, flinty clay, sandy terraces and Kimmeridgian marl, with each type of soil contributing its own qualities and creating a wine which has very particular characteristics on a terroir which does not. Their Pouilly-Fumé Cuvée Silex is quite superb, combining complexity and finesse, with a subtle nose of notes of honey, flowers and spices. The mouth is very marked by the soils, giving it a mineral taste and great freshness. It is a racy, very well-balanced, powerful, ample wine with very good development. The Pouilly-Fumé Coteau des Girarmes is remarkable, with notes of fresh fruit and lime-tree, a fleshy, aromatic wine which is ample, fruity and lasting in the mouth. A member of the Individual Wineries Federation.

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Clos du Notaire

We are immeditely charmed by the location of the vineyard, set above the confluent of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers, a strategic position with an excellent micro-climate for the vines planted on hillsides with a clay-limestone sub-soil and lots of gravel. The 20 hectares of vines on this family estate are managed using the "reasonable pest-control" approach. 1/3 of the vines are over 30 years old and some plots even reach the venerable age of 50 years old. The grapes produced here are rich in aromas, and Richard Charbonnier, a skilled wine-maker, masters the production process. The wines are of great quality, have excellent balance and are seductive, flavoursome and full of charm. This know-how is much appreciated among the knowledgeable clientele and has won many medals and the praises of the various wine guides. You should taste the Côtes-de-Bourg, remarkable with its beautiful garnet-red colour, its solid tannic base, flesh and richness and notes of spices and underwood. A wine which you will have to wait for if you want to enjoy its full potential.

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