Collection: Legrand Latour Estate

Thibault represents the 4th generation of the estate in Fleury-la-Rivière in the Marne Valley, and it is with him, starting in 2017 and after leaving the cooperative, that they truly began to craft wine. He adopts a geo-oenological approach: it is the different layers of the subsoil that must be expressed through the wine—much like his father, a paleontologist, who had the Cave aux Coquillages (Shell Cave) excavated in the region to showcase the numerous fossils. This is how the cuvées were named: Eocene, Ypresian, Lutetian, and Campanian, which are the names of prehistoric periods and geological layers.

The vines are cultivated using biodynamic methods (certified in 2019), with all herbicides having been banned since 2012. The work involves long, natural fermentations, often in wood, and long aging in cool cellars with very little added sulfur. Starting in 2020, Thibault has used—following the Agrapart method—fresh grape must from the year's harvest to trigger the second fermentation in the bottle. This secondary fermentation takes place under cork, and riddling as well as disgorging are performed by hand. It involves all the classic traditional virtues, combined with a passionate approach not only to terroir, but to terroir in its specific layers.