
After a period of discovery and travel, particularly in Spain, the winemaker Frédéric Sigonneau returned to Touraine in 2004 to take over the family estate in Cravant les Coteaux and create the Domaine de l'R in 2007.
The vineyard, composed mainly of old Cabernet Franc vines over 60 years old, extends over a vast gravel plain on the right bank of the Vienne, in the heart of the Chinon appellation.
Frédéric Sigonneau chose, from the creation of the Domaine, to convert the 8 hectares of his Cabernet Franc vineyard to organic farming, completely eliminating the use of herbicides and insecticides, treating the soil only with copper and sulphur when necessary. The grapes are harvested by hand and transported by crate. In the cellar, the vatting is done by gravity, the pumping over is short and the yeasts are indigenous. The estate is certified in organic farming by ECOCERT.
In 2015, he decided to launch a white cuvée from a 25-acre plot of Chenin that was created in 2018.
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