Pouillé, Touraine (Loire)
I also visited Laurent Saillard who was like Anouk & Paul in the vineyard pruning with a small team. The temperature was a bit less cold than a few days before (Thésée is just facing Pouillé on the other side of the Cher river) I found them in the parcel of Pineau d'Aunis (the one for the cuvée Scarlette) not very far from Laurent's chai on the plateau. The vines on this 50-are parcel are something like 50 years old. They began to prune in the very last days of november, worked an additional 2 weeks in december and now they had been kicking back to work for a few days when I stopped there (they started working at 8:30 am that day but i showed up wisely at 11). Normally they should be pruning at this quiet pace until mid march.
Laurent hasn't been to the U.S. for a while, the borders are closed, and the situation is pretty messy there. Asked if he has other Aunis elsewhere apart from this parcel, he reminds me that he planted some 2 years ago but they're not yet in production, should be next year hopefully. Until now they pruned some sauvignon, the day before they went in a parcel of gamay to see how it was faring.
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