Café de la Promenade (Bourgueil): Joseph and Filliatreau

 Dominique Joseph (Le Petit Saint-Vincent, Saumur)

 tasting his 2012 nobile, Saumur (below)

Saturday 5th April: dropped into Café de la Promenade for lunch where Dominique Joseph and Frédéric Filliatreau were having lunch with their wives. The 2012 nobile (100% Chenin) Le Petit Saint Vincent was showing very well.

Frédéric Filliatreau (Domaine Filliatreau)

Ludo Ragot of Café de la Promenade pouring wine

An evening@Café de la Promenade

Photos from a Saturday evening@Café de la Promenade, Bourgueil.

 Isa's precision pours

 Vino Strada

 

 Links to London – soif in the Terroirs group of wine bars/restaurants 

 Dorothée – chef de cuisine

Isa 

 Bar with glasses (above and below) – just the direction of light is different

Sophie Ragot – owner of Café de la Promenade with husband Ludovic

(above and below)

  

 

 2009 Cuvée Simon rather rustic cuvée made for Ludo and other wine enthusiasts

 Thierry Amirault, 2012 Les Quarterons, Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil: 

improving estate although this 2012 remains quite austere

 Ludovic checking a wine

Ludo chatting to a couple making their first visit to Café de la Promenade

 Celebrating a brief power cut

 Notice to smokers to light up in the garden

 10,000 bottles of Bourgueil a year – the secret a sensible margin 

for drinking in the restaurant – retail price plus 8€.

Les 5 du Vin@Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil+Bourgueil: 10.6.12

Four vignerons from Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil: L-R

Gérard Vallée, Thierry Foltzenlogel, Jean-Charles Bruneau, Mathieu Lamoureux

Jean-Charles Bruneau

Gérard Vallée

Les Vallées – succession assured!

Mathieu Lamoureux (Domaine de l'Asselière)

 Francis Jamet

François Audebert (above and below)

 Guillaume Lapaque on Facebook in the Clos Senechal, Benais

 Joël Taluau

Ludovic Ragot@Café de la Promenade (above and below)

David Cobbold