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Rémy Dirrig
producer, wine maker
News :
-Publication of the winemaker’s book “The Origin and History of Life on Earth” available at the Domaine du Bané, with a welcome drink ! Have a look at the "for sale" section !
“uva imperat” is the motto of the estate Domaine du Bané, Saint-Sauveur’s wine creator Remy. Indeed it is the grape’s imposing what I try to decode until bottling. Ex nihilo in 2004, I created every year since 2008, a product that I like and want to share. I create with what nature and vintage offer me. The harvest is the appointment of an annually renewed adventure.
A wine tradition over 5000 years old, which began in Eastern Europe, Georgia and through conquest and trade exchanges with the East and South, spread through the Greeks, Egyptians, Arabs and old Romans with Caton and Columelle till us. Transmission of a knowledge that I am trying to maintain, adapt to the climate, the soil, the grapes, the “terroir” in one word. Above all environmentally friendly !
MY CONVICTIONS AND MY PHILOSOPHY
I create every year wines that reflect a vintage. They will all be different and typical of the year of production. My practices in terms of wine growing and wine making are poles apart from industrial or semi-industrial wines.
The soil of the estate is alluvial from the quaternary, having a lot of stones, sandy-gravelly-silty reddish. The quaternary covers the last two million years. During this period there was the last ice age 20 000 years ago, when the sea level were 100m lower than nowadays, deposing rough sands also called alluvial deposit. But there was also far more later, a climatic warm up, which brought up the sea levels and with it the deposit of fine sands also called organic sand.
Viticulture is as close to soil and climate as possible. The whole domain, which is driven in polycultural ways, as well as all its products are labelled High Environmental Value (HVE), label which qualifies for the preservation of the biodiversity, phytosanitary strategy, fertilization and water resource management, on the entire domain. The originality of the HVE label is to carry a social promise as well and not only on one single product, but also on the sustainability of the soil, the quality of the environment and all the products issued from it, products deserving respect and respecting their consumer’s convictions.
Any synthetic chemical input is prohibited. The treatments are those permitted and even necessary in organic and biodynamic agriculture i.e cupric treatment and also sulphiting. If necessary, herbs infusions are sprayed... No irrigation or water waste and as less organic fertilizer as possible. CMR (carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic ) have always been banned from the Domaine. If possible what is taken out is brought back in the soil (must from pressing, vine shoots etc…). Earthing/de-earthing is mechanical, by tractor and mostly by horse. The turf is natural and maintained by hand like all vineyard operations (pruning, disbudding, polling etc...), up to and including the harvest, which is done according to the lunar calendar (as well as the pruning) in small baskets 30kg grapes max. each one. Volume and yield are deliberately limited, approx. 15-20hl / ha depending on the vintage and of course on the weather!
The wine making and aging are close to the characteristics of the vintage hoping there are no microbiological deviance which would condemn the wine to the waste! Thus sulphiting is zero or minimized, skin maceration is adapted to the vintage, white will age longer or less in tanks, red more or less in French oak, filtered or not during the bottling ... Bottling, labeling and packaging are also made at the estate.
From vineyard to the wine, standards and norms that protect your health are respected, applied, controlled and often surpassed. But the labels and other rules that standardize tastes and wine expressions are systematically refuted. I give special care to use quality and natural products (bottles, natural corks ...) and to work with local craftsmen whenever possible.
SHORT HISTORY OF THE ESTATE domaine du BANÉ
1800: Bonaparte was not Napoleon yet. Birth of Joseph Rodet , elder of the current owner. The property is in the family in the direct line until this day. Construction of an independant building in the 19th century called " cabote " which was apparently the first school of the village under Jules Ferry.
1918: Construction of the house next to the farm of le Bané by François Joseph Rodet (see photo), the grandfather of the actual owner.
1995: Back from a few years living in the USA, takeover of the family estate by the grand-daughter of François-Joseph Rodet and her husband Remy, Franco-Swiss for their third life (!) with the approval of their daughter born in the USA . Beginning of the restructuring of the entire estate. The approach is willingly ecological, in other words there is no single-culture but only poly-culture. Re-parcellation, extension of the walnut grove ( region of AOP Grenoble walnuts) , planting fruit trees etc ... and conversion to a more natural and organic agriculture for all crops.
2000-2012: Renovation and extension of all buildings , including construction of a winery , cellar and other facilities and infrastructure essential to the production of quality wines.
2003 Pulling out existing old grapes hybrids of the region ( Baccot , Clinton etc ...).
2004 Plantation of the first plot of new grapes. Syrah , Viognier .
2005-2006 back to school (Wine University) for the winemaker Remy ! .
2008 First harvest , a " garage wine " type!.
2010 First approval IGP Isere, Saint Sauveur 2010 vintage.
2011 First marketing of bottles of red wines 2009 vintages ( Syrah and assembly ) as well as white wine 2010 ( Viognier) .
2014 First participation in the national competition of the independent winegrowers in Paris with the red blend vintage 2011 François Joseph tribute to the grandfather. Rewarded with a bronze medal.
2013 - 2014 Extension by tripling the surface of planted grapes. Yet it will take 3-4 years before their first wine!
2017 Opening of the new winery and tasting room. First harvest of the new grappes Chardonnay, little arvine, etc...
2018 First national certification with the HVE label for the Domaine du Bané including all its products (grapes, nuts, cereals, fruits, natural meadows) in High Environmental Value at the 3rd level (the highest). A certification (questioned each year and controlled by an independent body) which takes the 4 ecological criteria into account: biodiversity, water management, phytosanitary strategy (treatments) and soil management, therefore fertilization ( manure) as well as tillage.
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