Domaine Noëlla Morantin

Noëlla Morantin came to wine by choice, not by inheritance. After years in the world of communication and marketing, she decided to start anew by following a passion cultivated since childhood, when her father made wine for himself from a few family vines. She trained by working alongside some of the most influential winemakers in the Loire and Burgundy, including Agnès and René Mosse, Marc Pesnot, and Philippe Pacalet. In 2008, she took over the first 6 hectares of vineyards on the banks of the Cher, in Pouillé, Loir-et-Cher, starting the Estate that today comprises about 8 organic certified hectares.

The soils are predominantly clay-flinty on a limestone bedrock, a terroir that imparts precise minerality and a long structure to the wines. The cultivated grape varieties are Sauvignon Blanc, Gamay, Côt, Cabernet Franc, and Chardonnay. Noëlla works in the vineyard without synthetic products, favors biodiversity, and follows biodynamic principles. Harvesting is always done by hand.

In the cellar, the approach is non-interventionist: spontaneous fermentations with indigenous yeasts, no filtration or fining, minimal sulfites added only at bottling. Noëlla prefers to classify some wines as Vin de France rather than conforming to regulations that would constrain her choices in the vineyard and cellar.

Noëlla Morantin came to wine by choice, not by inheritance. After years in the world of communication and marketing, she decided to start anew by following a passion cultivated since childhood, when her father made wine for himself from a few family vines. She trained by working alongside some of the most influential winemakers in the Loire and Burgundy, including Agnès and René Mosse, Marc Pesnot, and Philippe Pacalet. In 2008, she took over the first 6 hectares of vineyards on the banks of the Cher, in Pouillé, Loir-et-Cher, starting the Estate that today comprises about 8 organic certified hectares.

The soils are predominantly clay-flinty on a limestone bedrock, a terroir that imparts precise minerality and a long structure to the wines. The cultivated grape varieties are Sauvignon Blanc, Gamay, Côt, Cabernet Franc, and Chardonnay. Noëlla works in the vineyard without synthetic products, favors biodiversity, and follows biodynamic principles. Harvesting is always done by hand.

In the cellar, the approach is non-interventionist: spontaneous fermentations with indigenous yeasts, no filtration or fining, minimal sulfites added only at bottling. Noëlla prefers to classify some wines as Vin de France rather than conforming to regulations that would constrain her choices in the vineyard and cellar.

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