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Sergio Germano in Serralunga Sergio Germano is the perfect example of a modern, scientifically trained winegrower who is grounded in the traditions of his region. Representing the fourth generation of vine growing Germanos in Serralunga d’Alba, Sergio was the first to bottle the entire production at the estate, beginning in 1993. His goal, he says, is to express in his wines the character of each vineyard, of each grape variety, and…
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Fabrice Gasnier in Chinon When we last saw Fabrice Gasnier at his beautiful home in Cravant-les-Coteaux, he had just completed a five-year transformation of his 24-hectare estate to biodynamics; the agricultural discipline based on a series of lectures by Rudolph Steiner titled <em>The Spiritual Foundation for the Renewal of Agriculture</em>. Steiner was an Austrian philosopher active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth…
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Andreas Widmann produces small quantities of pristine wine from eight hectares of land perched on hillsides above the Strada del Vino in Caldaro, Alto Adige. His beautiful house and cellar are in the old part of Cortaccia, very near his family's original residence, where they have lived and farmed (not just wine grapes - Andreas also oversees several hectares of apple and cherry orchards) since 1824.
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Pierre and Monique Luneau-Papin represent the eighth generation of winegrowers in their families. Their son Pierre-Marie, who joined the estate in 2005, and took over responsibility for operations in 2011, represents the ninth. Both Pierre and Pierre-Marie are leading lights of the region; they still harvest by hand, are notorious for the multiplicity of their labels, and happily bottle tiny quantities of special wines from…
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Adrian Fabre with his old Grenache vines Domaine la Florane is a single contiguous estate in Visan, about a half-hour from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, with 24 hectares of vines and thirty hectares of truffle oak forest. In 2001 when Adrian Fabre joined his father at the domain, they decided to leave the cooperative and bottle the wines themselves – at their own new gravity fed winery that was completed in 1998.
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