A few questions we recently asked Marc Plouzeau
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How long have you been a winemaker ?
I took over the running of the family winery in 1999, and immediately started on the path to organic conversion. I’ve been managing it alone since 2003, my first year of making the wines myself.
What is your best memory in the vineyard or cellar ?
It has to be 2003. My first proper vintage!
It was a very unusual year and I had very little experience in the cellar. I just had to roll up my sleeves and make the wine how I felt it should be done and not take too much notice of external opinions.
I presented my wine to all of the main wine competitions to try and get myself known, and then to my great surprise:
Gold medal in Chinon
Gold medal in Angers
Silver medal in Paris
Gold medal in Macon!
For the 2015 vintage, what is at present your favourite wine and why ?
It’s still too soon to tell, but I think that the Chapelle 2015 wine will be really successful. It’s produced from a lovely vineyard plot which shows its true colours in the great vintage years.
What are your projects for 2016?
We launched two new prestige wines in 2014 and 2015 which will soon be put on sale:
- Chinon Vindoux l'Intégrale
- Chinon Clos des Roches St Paul
We will also launch a new pure, fresh and simple range of wines for 2016:
- Le Croquant
- Le Bouquet
- La Fine'S'
This is the year that we will complete the whole range of our wines to best express the diversity of our different vineyards.
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