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Among the very best of the small "grower-producers" of Cognac, is Pascal Fillioux proprietor of the small firm, Jean Fillioux. Pascal is the fourth generation of Fillioux to carry the tradition since the firms founding in 1880. Pascal’s vineyards lie in the very heart of the Grande Champagne district. Pascal personally oversees, (if not performs) every aspect of production: harvest, fermentation, distillation, aging, blending and…
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Reberto Ferraris with his wife and son in Agliano Terme The estate was established in 1923, when Roberto’s grandfather, Stefano Ferraris, planted vines in a natural south-southwest facing limestone amphitheater in Agliano Terme, in the heart of the Barbera d’Asti zone. Today, there are nine hectartes (about 23 American acres) under vine. The steep exposure, and now very old vines, not to mention the impeccable farming, results in…
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Sophie, Maxime, and Geneviève Barmès in the Clos Sand François Barmès wholeheartedly embraced the Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner’s belief in the interdependence of the forces of life, earth, and the cosmos. So in 1995, in order to undo the damage caused by decades of chemically dependent viticulture, he began the transformation of his vineyards to biodynamics. Today his son Maxime continues his work, growing the most…
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Hervé and Diane Joyaux Fabre Hervé Fabre came from a family of wine négociants in Bordeaux. When he arrived in Argentina in the early 1990s, he was surprised to find that nearly every other investor in Mendoza’s wine renaissance was buying undeveloped land and planting new vineyards. They were ignoring the old vineyards of head-trained Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon that had been established a hundred years earlier by émigrés from…
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Julien Zernott and his wife, Delphine Rousseau, took on the challenge of creating a domaine in the stony, hot, arid land of Pégairolles-de-l'Escalette - a tiny commune of 140 inhabitants in the Hérault, north and west of Montpellier. Julien, with his degrees in viticulture and oenology (as well as a track record of producing outstanding wines in the Loire appellation of Menetou-Salon ), built the domaine from small parcels of…
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