Fast approaching Loire dates for your diary

Biotyfoule21 vigneronnes et vignerons bio tourangeaux vous donnent rendez-vous dans le hall de la Mairie de Tours les samedi 24 et dimanche 25 novembre 2018 pour la 9e édition de Biotyfoule.

Alors que les Français n'ont jamais été autant intéressés par les vins bio, cet événement sera l'occasion de découvrir qui se cache derrière les étiquettes. De Bourgueil à Vouvray, en passant par Montlouis, Azay-le-Rideau, Amboise ou Chinon, les producteurs présenteront leurs cuvées issues des cépages locaux travaillés en agriculture biologique certifiée. Vous évoluerez de stand en stand, comme lors d'une balade au cœur des terroirs tourangeaux.

Dégustation et vente. Accès libre, verre à dégustation : 5€.
Hôtel de Ville de Tours, samedi 24 de 11h à 19h, dimanche 25 de 10h à 18h.
 
Ouvert aux particuliers et aux professionnels. Petite restauration bio sur place. Ateliers du goût gratuits.

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Anges Vins details here.

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Details of Saumur Salon: 1st and 2nd December.  

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La BoireSalon de vins bio et naturelsSamedi 1 et dimanche 2 décembre 2018Au Wattignies Social Club, sur l’île de Nantes

Loire

Manu et Marion Landron-Pescheux, domaine Complémen'Terre (Muscadet);
Jacques et Agnès Carroget, domaine La Paonnerie (Pinards et Jus); Marie Carroget et Sandra Chenal (Nord Loire); Johan Chassé (Pinards et Jus); Philippe Chevarin (Pinards et Jus); Adrien De Mello, domaine de la Petite Sœur (Anjou); Stéphane Delettre (Bourgueil); Jacques Février, domaine Le Raisin à Plume (Pinards et Jus); Xavière Hardy (Pinards et Jus); Mathieu Lhotellier (Pinards et Jus); Marc Pesnot, domaine La Sénéchalière; Rémy Sédès (Pinards et Jus); Thibault Stephan (Saumur Puy- Notre-Dame); David Landron, l’Aufrère (Muscadet); Benoit, Bernard et Françoise Landron, domaines Landron- Chartier (Pinards et Jus); Emilie Brunet Tourette, domaine la Tour brune (Anjou);  Igor et Melanie, domaine du Bois Rond (Pinards et Jus); Yoann Gillot, domaine les Vins jardinés (Muscadet)

Alsace
Julien Albertus, domaine Kumpf-Meyer

Beaujolais
Sylvère Trichard, domaine Séléné

Jura
Gilles Wicky

Languedoc-Roussillon
Victor Beau, Domaine Inebriati
Patrice Dethil, domaine Calimàs  Rhône Sud
Elodie Aubert, Clos des Cîmes (Rhône Sud)

Dordogne
Romuald Ambitio

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Producers:

Olivier BELLANGER-- Domaine La Piffaudière, Pierre-Olivier BONHOMME-- Domaine Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme, Mikaël BOUGES, Alain COURTAULT et Simon TARDIEUX-- Domaine Courtault-Tardieux, Cédric FLEURY--Domaine Les Gauchers, Moses GADOUCHE et Pascal POTAIRE-- Les Capriades, Corinne et Paul GILLET-- Domaine des Maisons brûlées, Jean-Christophe JÉZÉQUEL, Anouk LAVOIE-LAMOUREUX et Paul André RISSE--Domaine Les Jardins de Theseiis, Ariane LESNÉ-- Domaine de Montrieux, Estelle MAÎTRE et François SAINT-LÉGER-- Les Caves de l'Arche Macé, Damien MENUT, Berjan MOL--Domaine La Taupe, Noëlla MORANTIN, Julien PINEAU, Pierre PRADELLE--Domaine des Pies blanches, Vincent ROUSSELY-- Clos Roussely, Jérôme SAUVETE-- Domaine Sauvète, Cyrille SEVIN-- Domaine Cyrille Sevin, Philippe TESSIER-- Domaine Philippe Tessier, Brendan TRACEY, Yann LE POLLOTEC – bière, La PIGEONNELLE – bière

Two Loire wine November dates for Your Diary – Tours and Saumur

Hotel de Ville, Tours

bioTyfoule: Tours Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th November

Last year I was able to go to this Salon in Tours. Unfortunately I shall miss it this year as we are in London. If you are in the area next weekend it is certainly recommended for the opportunity to taste organic producers in Touraine from Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil to Vouvray and Coteaux du Loir.   

Horaires 
Samedi 19 novembre de 11 h à 19 h
Dimanche 20 novembre de 10 h à 18 h

Où ?
Hôtel de Ville de Tours, Place Jean-Jaurès

C’est gratuit ?

Entrée libre
Ateliers gratuits
Verre à dégustation vendu 4 €

The following producers will be there:
Xavier Amirault, Clos des Quarterons, Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil
Claude Aupetitgendre, Domaine de Montoray, Montouis and Touraine
Cyril et Fabien Boisard, Domaine du Mortier, Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil
Ludovic Chanson, Montlouis
Régis et Gabrielle Dansault, Domaine de l'Ouche Gaillard, Montlouis
Sandrine Dechamps, La Fontaine aux Fougères, Bourgueil
Domaine Fabrice Gasnier, Chinon 
Pierre et Rodolphe Gauthier, Bourgueil, 
Laurent Herlin, Bourgueil
Pascal et Béatrice Lambert, Chinon
Patrick Lambert, Chinon
Thierry Landry, Chinon
Frédéric Mabileau, Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, Bourgueil
Sandra & Stéphane Mesliard, Domaine Mesliard
Nicolas Paget, Domaine Nicolas Paget, Azay-le-Rideau
François Pinon, Vouvray
François Plouzeau, Domaine de la Garrelière 
Jean-Christophe Rault, Domaine de Pintray, Montlouis 
Wilfred Rousse, Chinon
Pierre Sourdais, Domaine Pierre Sourdais, Chinon
Domaine Johann Spelty, Chinon
Louis Jean et Florence Sylvos, Azay-le-Rideau
Kathleen Van den Berghe, Bourgueil

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Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th November – 3rd Salon de Vignerons Saumur So Bio, Domaine de la Bergère, Bagneux nr Saumur

The suspects......

Horaires etc.: 

Saturday: 16.00-21.00; Sunday 10.00-18.00

Cost:
5€ includes glass

Saumur producers present: 

• Matthieu Bouchet • Corentin Dalibert • Richard Desouche • Philippe Elliau • David Foubert • Mélanie et Aymeric Hillaire • Dominique Joseph • Adrien et Guillaume Pire • Guillaume Reynouard• Jean François Régnier• Véronique et Jacky Ripoche • Thibault Stephan • Mathieu Vallée • Loïc Terquem • Pauline Mourrain et Laurent Troubat •

2015 bioTyfoule in Tours at the Hotel de Ville

Hotel de Ville, Tours 
 

Mass of tributes on the steps of the Hotel de Ville 
to those killed in the Paris attacks (13th November 2015)

Serendipitously I was in Tours this weekend for the Rencontres de François Rabelais as I was one of the speakers at a table ronde on oenotourism (wine tourism) so was able to go along to this Salon des vignerons bio tourangeaux - bioTyfoule (beautiful).

Interestingly the need to publicise events and to make more use of social media were among the topics raised at our round table. I only found out about bioTyfoule last Wednesday through an email from Château de Minière. Although I did post the information on Jim's Loire, it would have been far better to have the information much earlier as one of my aims with the blog is to help to publicise events like this.

I was able to spend about four hours at the Salon, so was able to taste most of the wines there. The vignerons were, in theory, limited to showing four wines, which most respected while there were a few who bought a few more wines. Azay-le-Rideau, Bourgueil, Chinon and Montlouis were strongly represented.

It is clear that there are many attractive wines from 2014 with round, seductive reds. It is also impressive that there are some successful reds even in the very far from easy 2013 vintage, even though they are overshadowed by the 2014s.

Hervé Grenier, Domaine Vallée Moray

It was good to get up to date with the changes at the former Les Loges de la Folie in Montlouis. I understand that Valery Mordelet left the domaine at the beginning of 2014. Hervé Grenier, who was looking for an organic domaine in Montlouis, bought the property during 2014, which is his first vintage. The domaine is now called Vallée Moray with six hectares of Chenin and four of assorted reds, including some Pinot Noir, planted on ground classified as Montlouis and close to Les Bournais. Ironically Hervé says that this vineyard  would be very good for Chenin.

Vincent Bergeron

Fortunately there is continuity as Jean-Daniel Kloeckle, one of the previous owners, is now employed by Hervé. Little or no wine was made in 2012 and 2013. Also involved is Vincent Bergeron. I was impressed by their 2014  L'Aubépine (Montlouis sec) and the clean and lemony Bulles Palladium. Later I tried two reds - a very good, concentrated Gamay - 2014 Arcadienne vin de France as well as a Pinot Noir - 2014 Les Figurines.

Other producers who impressed on the day

Whites:

Julien Pinon 

François Piñon - represented by his son Julien, especially 2014 Silex Noir, and their new single vineyard - Les Déronnières. Grapes from this vineyard have long gone into Silex Noir but the Pinons have wanted to bottle it separately. Frost intervened in 2012 and hail in 2013. 

Domaine de la Garrelière – François and Pascaline Plouzeau (Touraine) esp 2011 Marquis de C – a Chenin/Sauvignon blend and the fizz Millard d'Etoiles, which is a blend of 50% Chenin and 50% Cabernet Franc.

Ludovic Chanson (Montlouis)

Ludo disarmingly admitted that his yields in 2015 had been - down in the 20s as he hadn't been as active in his vineyard as he should have been. I liked particularly the 2014 Les Cabotines - precise, honey and quince.

Benoît Mérias (Montlouis) I enjoyed both 2013 Les Quarts - saline, quite austere but precise - and 2013 Maisonnettes (also saline but with a little more structure and concentration – 6grams of residual sugar). 

Lise et Bertrand Jousset (Montlouis) 
2014 Clos aux Renards has attractive texture, honeyed weight and good length.

Château de la Roche en Loire (Azay-le-Rideau) - Louis Jean and Florence Sylvos.

Their 2014 Azay-le-Rideau Blanc Frédérique is softly and delicately honeyed with good length. Louis Jean is admirably farsighted: he is convinced that his 2020 vintage will be excellent.....and available to taste soon!!

Nicolas Paget (Azay le Rideau) http://www.domainepaget.fr I tasted an impressive range with Nicolas including some very interesting reds – to be covered in the next post. The two whites (Azay-le-Rideau) were 2014 Opus Azay – weight, texture and a touch of honey from 40 year-old vines planted on flint – and

Jean-Max Manceau’s 2014 Noir et blanc Chinon Blanc with good weight, concentration and currently a little touch of wood. This cuvée is vinified and aged in 400-litre barrels. Jean-Max stresses how different is his white cuvée, which is vinified in an oeuf.    

Sandra and Stéphane Mesliand - Domaine Mesliard (Touraine-Amboise)

2014 Les Culs de Boeufs at Limerary (northside of the Loire) a single vineyard on the premières côtes facing south overlooking the Loire.

Finally from Domaine Montoray (Claude Aupetitgendre) in Lussault-sur-Loire their 2014 L’Oiseau Blanc Montlouis, which was picked about a week later than their entry-level Montlouis – Libreval – and consequently has more weight than the former while remaining delicate.   

A post on the reds will follow.

bioTyfoule@Tours: Salon des vignerons bio tourangeaux

 Hervé Grenier, Domaine Vallée Moray, Montlouis 

– very expressive with his hands  

(above and below)

Some photos taken today at 2015 bioTfoule – Salon des vignerons bio tourangeaux. The Salon is on again tomorrow at the Hotel de Ville in the centre of Tours and is well worth a visit. 

 Vincent Bergeron, Domaine Vallée Moray, Montlouis 

 Julien Pinon, Domaine François Pinon

The Pinon wines continue to be a precise as Julien's moustache!

 Johann Spelty, Domaine Johann Spelty

Good Chinon Blanc (below) and 2014 Cuvéés Les Folies from Vienne plain 

 Johann Spelty: 2014 Chinon Blanc – comment sa perdre en Chenin .... 

(easy fail to make sure that the camera is properly focused on the label!)

Rémy Mabileau, Domaine Frédéric Mabileau 

Rémy is now working with hid dad mainly in the 

vines but sometimes in the chai

 Fine 2014 Les Culs de Boeufs, Touraine Amboise. Domaine Mesliard 

from vignes on les primières côtes de Limeray

 (on north bank of the Loire facing south)

 Thierry Landry (Chinon) 

 Impressive 2011 Clos Guillot, Vieilles Vignes, Chinon,

Thierry Landry. €10.50

Thierry has the upper part of the Clos Guillot (1.80ha),

while Domaine Bernard Baudry has the lower part  

 2011 Moulin de Rochette, Vieilles Vignes, Chinon, Thierry Landry

Also impressive and great value €7.50

 Nicolas Paget, Domaine Nicolas Paget, Azay le Rideau and Chinon

Since the 2014 vintage Nicolas has opted to destem his reds grapes by hand.

The result is impressively soft and attractive  

2014 Les Cabotines, Montlouis, Ludovic Chanson 

Very precise, honeyed, touch of quince with real potential to age

More details of wines tasted to be added in a further post.