{"product_id":"benjamin-serer-vouvray-la-tradition-methode-traditionnelle","title":"Benjamin Serer Vouvray La Tradition Methode Traditionnelle","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Serer originally wanted to be a chef. He got as far up the ladder as opening a restaurant in Switzerland for the Alain Ducasse Group and then cooking at Ducasse’s Le Louis XV in Monaco for a year. The latter was an intensely competitive experience: when he wasn’t sleeping, he was in that kitchen, and at some point, the joy just went out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReturning to his home region, in 2019 he took a leap of faith and rented 1.6 hectares of vines. These averaged 50-years of age and grew on what’s known as the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003epremière côte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (the first south-facing hillside rising above the Loire) in the commune of Vouvray. He made one wine in that vintage, labeling it simply as Le Sec.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the same year he took a job managing 18 hectares of vines on the plateau of Vernou-sur-Brenne for a friend who had just bought them from a retiring vigneron. The understanding was that Benjamin would come to know the vines while at the same time putting together finances in order to buy what most appealed. In November of 2022 he did just that, choosing several choice parcels—one a stone’s throw from Hüet’s famous Clos du Bourg parcel—totaling 5.4 hectares. The following year he quit the viticultural gig (his friend sold the remaining parcels to others) and went full time on his own domaine, which now came to 7 hectares or 17.29 acres in Vouvray and Vernou-sur-Brenne.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBen’s vintage méthode champenoise. Ferments are native yeast, and three-quarters of the wine is raised in steel over winter and one-fourth in older 400L barrels. The wine is bottled en tirage in March and left to rest on its lees for 12 months before disgorgement. No dosage. A clean, crisp and very toothsome wine that speaks of its chalk and stones as much as it does of its fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"v59","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018028024114,"sku":"50000000008279","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0044\/7165\/2425\/files\/SNBSLTR22-1024x1024_jpg.png?v=1775021353","url":"https:\/\/www.vintagewinemerchants.com\/products\/benjamin-serer-vouvray-la-tradition-methode-traditionnelle","provider":"Vintage Wine Merchants","version":"1.0","type":"link"}