Now firmly in the hands of the 4th Generation, Domaine Guiberteau has some of the best land on the impressive hill of Brézé. When 3rd generation Robert retired, none of his children were ready to take over the project so the holdings were farmed out and the grapes sold to local cooperatives.

Current winemaker Romain Guiberteau came back the mid 1990’s and made the decision to take back family control of the cellar—mentored in his early vintages by the Loire icon Clos Rougeard’s Nady Foucault Romain—converted all vineyards to organic farming, and quickly became a darling of the French restaurant scene.

The Le Bourg vineyard is only two and half acres of chenin planted mid slope of Brézé on sand clay over soft limestone bedrock back in the 1940s. Romain prefers a certain style here and makes sure the wine does not go through malolactic fermentation. He ages it in old French oak for a year before bottling.

This wine is expected to be available to ship by mid November.