It’s my Vineyard

Buying a vineyard is one thing but making fine wine is something else.  When we started it was essential that we look for a “metayage” arrangement where a vigneron would work the land and make the wine receiving as salary half the production. 
This is a common situation with families passing on the wine making [...]

The wine is just as good as ever, and continuity has been assured as the wine is still made by the same sharecropper vigneron Pascal Grandjean, a man dedicated to quality and the individuality that the estate’s terroir brings; the 2005 is a real stunner. 
A deep ruby red with granite tinges, and a middleweight [...]

Régnié is the most recently created of the Beaujolais Crus, the appellation having received its official decree only in 1988. As such it is still relatively unknown, and remains to be discovered by many. 
The 650 hectares of gently sloping vineyards are situated at an average altitude of some 300 metres, around the pretty village [...]