Domaine Bobinet started in 2002, when Sébastien Bobinet took over 1.8 hectares of Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc vines in Saumur-Champigny from his grandparents. He’s the 7th generation of a family of winemakers and honed his craft working with such greats as Olivier Cousin, the Foucoult Brothers of Clos Rougeard and Beaujolais forefather Jules Chauvet. In 2011 his wife Eméline Calvez joined the domaine and Bobinet became cemented as the cult natural producers they are today.
This progressive young duo are staunch traditionalists at heart, preferring to work their limestone and clay soils with the help of a horse-drawn plow. Everything is done by hand in a truly non-interventionist approach. Without any addition of sulphur, they bottle their wines unfined and unfiltered to allow the final product to express heightened aromatics and a stoney minerality characteristic of the Saumur terroir. – Importer Note