Le Vin de Blaise

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My family has been growing vines for more than a century : Blaise is actually Blaise Granier, my great-great-grandfather who was born in 1851, and died in 1934. That’s why I called the wine Le vin de Blaise. Blaise Granier’s parents were educated farmers (I have lovely handwritten letters from them) and he succeeded in wine sales in Paris in the 1870’s , then came back to his village when his father died in 1901: the village is Sainte-Cécile-les-vignes, near Cairanne and Rasteau. He had the first car of the village, and was really a funny and talented man. He gave the estate to his only-daughter Jeanne, who gave it to her only-daughter Paulette, who married my grandfather. My father inherited of all this, and now I work in the vineyard.

The grapes in Le vin de Blaise are organic certified, and biodynamic (Demeter) and quite old (planted 1958,1965, 1967). For years we had always been bringing our grapes to the “cooperative” (like 60% of the Côtes du Rhône vines).

I, Stephanie, now make a small production since harvest 2015 : 8000 bottles for the last vintages  with three red wines :

a 100% Cinsault (Vin de France), the "cuvée Violette" (AOP Côtes du Rhône) and the "cuvée Marguerite" (AOP Côtes du Rhône Villages)
Of course no external yeasts, no additives of any kind, no filtration, no fining (collage), and low sulphites before bottling (depending on the vintage but always below 30 mg/l)