2019 L'OUSTAL BLANC "NAICK" VIN DE FRANCE BLANC
2019 L'OUSTAL BLANC "NAICK" VIN DE FRANCE BLANC, MINERVOIS, LANGUEDOC, FRANCE. Grenache Blanc & Macabeu.
About: Winmaker Isabel Cardoso-Fonquerle was born in Guinea-Bissau, a Lusophone West African country of stunning beauty, where cashew nuts, yams, cassava, sweet potatoes and tropical fruits are harvested ... but where she grew up knowing nothing of the cultivation of the vine. The only grapes that Isabel had seen in her childhood were in the form of pretty earrings that her mother gave to her for her 15th birthday. A sign, an omen maybe?
Many years later, in 1998, in Paris where she had established herself, Isabel encountered the complex world of wine with a seasonal job at Lafayette Gourmet, a quintessential establishment for the French art de vivre. What was supposed to be only a summer job blossomed into a vocation, after Bruno Quenioux, a great sommelier, offered her to join his team.
However, Isabel's earrings were more than a sign; they heralded the amazing destiny of a young woman born in the African tropics who, through other encounters and circumstances, will soon assert herself as an accomplished winegrower. In 2002, with Claude Fonquerle, trained in Chateauneuf-du-Pape and then a winemaker in the Côtes du Ventoux, Isabel created a winery located in the exceptional La Livinière appellation area, the Premier Cru du Languedoc, in Minervois.
Today, on the eight hectares of the L'Oustal Blanc winery, which she now manages alone, Isabel cultivates her natural Carignan, Grenache Gris and Noir, Cinsault, Macabeu, Syrah and produces solar and refined wines that reflect of a unique terroir as well as the sincere expression of a woman with a strong personality. (Winery)
About: Winmaker Isabel Cardoso-Fonquerle was born in Guinea-Bissau, a Lusophone West African country of stunning beauty, where cashew nuts, yams, cassava, sweet potatoes and tropical fruits are harvested ... but where she grew up knowing nothing of the cultivation of the vine. The only grapes that Isabel had seen in her childhood were in the form of pretty earrings that her mother gave to her for her 15th birthday. A sign, an omen maybe?
Many years later, in 1998, in Paris where she had established herself, Isabel encountered the complex world of wine with a seasonal job at Lafayette Gourmet, a quintessential establishment for the French art de vivre. What was supposed to be only a summer job blossomed into a vocation, after Bruno Quenioux, a great sommelier, offered her to join his team.
However, Isabel's earrings were more than a sign; they heralded the amazing destiny of a young woman born in the African tropics who, through other encounters and circumstances, will soon assert herself as an accomplished winegrower. In 2002, with Claude Fonquerle, trained in Chateauneuf-du-Pape and then a winemaker in the Côtes du Ventoux, Isabel created a winery located in the exceptional La Livinière appellation area, the Premier Cru du Languedoc, in Minervois.
Today, on the eight hectares of the L'Oustal Blanc winery, which she now manages alone, Isabel cultivates her natural Carignan, Grenache Gris and Noir, Cinsault, Macabeu, Syrah and produces solar and refined wines that reflect of a unique terroir as well as the sincere expression of a woman with a strong personality. (Winery)
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