Domaine Curtet
Marie and Florian Curtet
Welcome to Chautagne, where Marie and Florian Curtet have settled to make Savoie wines the ancestral way. Farmed biodynamically, these are authentic, living wines not to be missed!
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The wines of Domaine Curtet
Natural wines from Chautagne
You’ll say: Savoie again! Yes, but we had never stopped in Chautagne before. And it was at Marie and Florian Curtet’s that we found some gems.
Returning to ancestral know-how and respecting nature as it should be: those are the deep convictions of this young couple. By taking over Jacques Maillet’s estate, Marie and Florian aim to be authentic and make wines in their own image.
Epi-curieux.com invites you to discover these terroir wines: free, fresh and easy to drink.
The story of Domaine Curtet
In 2011, at a wine fair in La Roche-sur-Foron, Marie and Florian Curtet met Jacques Maillet, THE Savoyard winegrower of natural wines. A follower of biodynamics, he had been making wines with unconventional methods since 2003: a big name in Savoie natural wine. From then on, they decided to work together in the vineyards of Chautagne, on three hillsides in Motz and Serrières-en-Chautagne, north of Lac du Bourget. Jacques Maillet passed on his love of nature, his biodynamic know-how and his knowledge of natural ways to protect the vines.
Four years later, Jacques handed over to Marie and Florian. Full of convictions and fine values, they want to carry on the work and passion for the land of Chautagne.
Marie and Florian Curtet intervene as little as possible. They work in harmony with nature, biodynamically, without additives, pesticides or artifice. Their values are simple: respect nature by giving it what it needs, which means listening to the landscape and regularly tasting their wines. Over the years they have learned to read the landscape, and they love the richness and complexity of biodiversity. People in harmony with nature!
These convictions also make them want to pass things on. To help young people understand living processes and the importance of soils, they organise visits to their vineyards, plant trees with them and explain their work.
Domaine Curtet, vineyards on a human scale
This young couple’s human-scale vineyard covers about 6 hectares of slopes along the Rhône, facing due west. The southern climate of Chautagne favours fertile soils made of sandstone and molasse (a sandy-silty soil of marine origin).
Marie and Florian were notably trained by Gilles Berlioz, a master of natural Savoyard terroir.
Domaine Curtet puts nature at the very top, with several layers of vegetation in the plots. They have sown trees and plants across their hillsides, because the tree acts as a conductor: it manages the vines’ water needs, through droughts as well as storms.
Marie and Florian Curtet have decided to let go: they do not plough and let the soil regulate itself. The plants growing among the vines, such as thyme, nettles or wild thyme (an antiseptic with antiviral properties), naturally care for the vines.
The cuvées of Domaine Curtet
In concrete vats, but also in stoneware and large casks, Marie and Florian’s wines reflect the work in the vineyard and their commitment.
They favour blends of their red and white grapes: Mondeuse, Gamay, Pinot Noir, Jacquère, Altesse… A choice also linked to the planting of new grape varieties and the replanting they are carrying out on the estate.
The Vertige wines are the estate’s cellar-worthy cuvées, aged 24 months in large casks. Vertige rouge blends Gamay and Mondeuse: fruity thanks to the Gamay, spicy and tannic thanks to the Mondeuse. Vertige blanc brings together the estate’s white grapes, aged in unfilled casks, for astonishing complexity and salinity.
La Glisse comes from a “dip” of different grapes in Gamay juice: a fresh, taut thirst-quenching red.
Alisse is a “blouge”, a co-fermentation of white and red grapes that is super easy-drinking: the ultimate summer wine to share with friends.
Tonnerre de Grès, a blend of Jacquère and Altesse, is an additive-free wine, unfiltered, with fruity and citrus notes: purity, liveliness and salinity. Also available in magnum.
Loyal fans will also remember their Mondeuse and Frissons des Cimes, a blend of Mondeuse, Gamay and Pinot Noir.
Fruit, finesse, freshness and complexity: pure happiness!
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