2005 Côt Franc de Pied, Henry Marionnet, Domaine de la Charmoise, Soings-en-Sologne
Henry Marionnet now has a significant holding of ungrafted vines – on original root stock and therefore open to being attacked and devoured by phylloxera. There are other patches in the Loire, or were because eventually phylloxera appears and does its deadly work. Over the past two or three years parcels owned by Mark Angeli (his Vignes Vignes Françaises in Anjou) and at Domaine Charles Joguet (Les Varennes du Grand Clos Francs Pieds, Chinon) have had to be grubbed up. So far, Marionnet has been spared ..............
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