Taking over from his father Claude, Stéphane now farms 13.5 hectares across four villages near his base in Sury-en-Vaux, in the northern part of Sancerre.The domaine has been certified organic and biodynamic since 2017.
Taking over from his father Claude, Stéphane now farms 13.5 hectares across four villages near his base in Sury-en-Vaux, in the northern part of Sancerre.The domaine has been certified organic and biodynamic since 2017.
Stéphane’s story is similar to many other French winemakers of his generation; he inherited the domaine from his father Claude, but not before we went to Beaune to study oenology. Once he took over, he converted the domaine first to organic viticulture, then to biodynamics.
But while Stéphane’s story is pretty typical, his wines are anything but. Few producers in Sancerre harvest entirely by hand (another change at the domaine instigated by Stéphane), and fewer still are biodynamic. The qualitative jump for these wines over the last few years has been dramatic, and critics have taken notice.
