Spotlight on key items and touch points of his approach
The estate
- 2 ha planted with Chardonnay
- The desire to extend the vineyard to 7 hectares in the next three years
- A trading activity started up in 2008 and first marketing in 2013 of wines which are re-vinified in subsea conditions
- The ambition to produce 200,000 premium range bottles in three years' time
Innovations
- Patent application in 2007 relating to subsea vinification process
- Vineyard cultivated with grass covering and non-interventionist practices
- Mastery of second fermentation processes (Xarmat method) in subsea conditions
- Enhancement of knowledge of the microbiological behaviour of yeasts and aromatic development in extreme conditions
Results
- Creation from scratch of a wine trading company, a wine estate and the redevelopment of a neglected production region
- Installation of the first vineyard on the French Basque coast
- Vines grown on a listed site in a Natura 2000 zone
- Discovery of a new expression of Chardonnay
- Local wine production in an area where winegrowing had disappeared
- Production of sparkling wines made from subsea vinification at sea depth of 15 metres in the Saint-Jean-de-Luz bay
- Development of specific flavours thanks to subsea vinification
- Reduction of energy costs relating to production of sparkling wines
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