The vineyards are located in Pouillé, which also happens to be the town with the cheapest gas prices in the vicinity of Clos Roche Blanche, a place very close to our hearts. It is, in fact the continuation from Clos Roche of the first hillside rising from the southwest side of the Cher river in the Touraine, a soil of limestone-clay with lots of silex and fossils. We have brought in two wines from the 2008 vintage - Le Herdeleau, a lively and fresh gamay/pinot blend. and L'Erebe a dark cot and cabernet blend (this means 'Erebus' or darkness). Both wines are closed with a crown cap.

Michel believes in using crown caps over cork for a lot of reasons, but mainly for proper conservation of the the freshness of the wines and ecological preservation: crown caps are recyclable, and the cork industry is particularly destructive to nature because of its required cleaning treatments.

VdF "Le Herdeleau"
Soil: clay and limestone.
Grapes : Pinot Noir, Gamay, Pineau d’Aunis. We don't know percentages because all the reds are harvested and macerated together.
Yields: 15 hl/ha.
Vinification: macerates for 10 days, whole cluster with remontage and pigeage at the end of the maceration. Aged 12 months in barrel. Non filtered and no added S02.
Origin of the Name: The name of the clos, which is a lieu dit.
VdF "L'Erèbe"
Soil: clay and limestone.
Grapes : Cabernet Franc, Côt
Vinification: maceration 8 to 10 days. The Côt is vinified whole cluster while the Cabernet is de-stemmed. Aged 12 months on the lees and with ouillage. Non filtered, no SO2.
Yields : 22 hl/ha.
Origin of the Name: This symbolizes the renaissance in primitive Greek mythology. Erebe was the son of Chaos and the brother of night; Aristophanes' poetry gives us a sense of this paradoxical being who created day and love (Eros). The wine seems to have gone through the same genesis.