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Chinon ‘Le Temps des Cerises’, Domaine de la Noblaie 2024
Red Wine from France - Loire
A delightful expression of Loire cabernet franc to serve on the cooler side, pure and light on nose and palate, with succulent red fruit and smooth finish. Their longstanding commitment to the environment means we are delighted to name them one of our Wine Society Pioneers for their work. Jérôme’s oenology/chemistry studies made him wary of synthetic chemical early and organic certification was achieved in 2010. They farm without irrigation, winery water comes from a huge rooftop tank, cover crop help improve soil health, and biodiversity is positively encouraged with planting of walnut and other trees, hedgerows, flowers and native plants beside bird nesting spaces. Jérôme’s membership of local professional organisations allows him to share organic techniques, and a decade age he set up an initiative to pass on ways to work in vineyard for people from conventional agricultural backgrounds to show them organic. 'I’m always proud when neighbours say “this year, I will go further"', he says. Just so.
Price:
£13.50
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(£18.00/litre)
Price:
£81.00
Case of 6
(£18.00/litre)
In Stock
Code: LO20241
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Light to medium-bodied
- Cabernet Franc
- 75cl
- Drinking now
- 12.5% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, no capsule
- 424 g (Empty bottle weight)
- Organic
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Jérôme Billard (Domaine de la Noblaie)
Jérôme Billard is a young grower who has taken over the reins of the family business in recent years. His grandparents bought the property for their retirement having migrated from the Corrèze department, and Jérôme’s father was professor of oenology at the agricultural college in Montreuil-Bellay. Jérôme trained with Moueix in Bordeaux and California, and later in New Zealand, and returned to the domaine with a fresh outlook but a great respect for the integrity of Chinon’s grapes, working organically since 2008.
The family now farms 21 hectares, 16 of which they own, around the hamlet of Le Vau Breton, a name which in the time of 15th-century poet and trencherman Rabelais meant ‘The Valley of Cabernet Franc’. 17 hectares are planted with cabernet franc and 4 with chenin blanc, and Jérôme vinifies parcels separately and by the age of the vines to retain their particular characteristics.