Description
100% Altesse.
Céline Jacquet is a young woman winemaker, who established her domaine in 2011 in the village of Arbin, in Savoie. Today, She farms about 5 hectares (12 acres), without any desire to grow much bigger.
She has vineyards in different places in the Combe de Savoie: Arbin, St-Jean de la Porte, Cruet, and Chignin. Céline studied winemaking in Beaujolais. Many of her parcels, such as the one going into Mes Aieux or Les Echalats, are at the top of the vineyard, planted on very steep slopes who benefit from perfect south, south-east exposure looking at the Alps. The work in the vineyard is authentic and natural. She manual farms, as the slopes won’t allow for any machinery. She refrains from using chemicals or industrial techniques, and promotes biodiversity. Of course, as everything else, harvest is done by hand only.
The same mentality extends to her winemaking. Whole cluster fermentation and maceration are done without inoculation and she adds minimal doses of sulfur.