Loire-Atlantique France
Vincent Caillé is a 5th generation winemaker. In fact, both of his parents came from different winemaking families, so he is a blend. In addition to benefiting from different influences, Vincent also has a wide range of inherited parcels.
The first time the name Muscadet appears on record is in an old document from the nearby village of Gorges in 1635. It has been found that Louis XIV made an “ordonnance” to bring resistant grapes from Burgundy after the Great Frost of 1709, which is where the Muscadet variety, Melon de Bourgogne, gets its name.
Vincent’s wines harken back to the “good old days” when nature was queen. This was way back before WWII reshaped Europe. As the 20th century continued, winemaking schools, high-tech cellars and agricultural chemicals changed the way wine was made. The peak of this foolishness was in 1970s when doctors would proscribe antibiotics for a runny nose.
Vincent’s goal is as simple as producing great grapes! That might seems strange to high-minded visionaries, but it’s a challenge for all farmers. The harder and better you work in the vineyard, the less you have to do cellar. Natural winemaking isn’t lazy, it takes much more work early on. You do have to train yourself to allow the wine to be itself in the cellar though. His style leads to a very expressive Gros Plant, and pure, laser beam Muscadet that expresses the identity of the various terroirs he farms (orthogneiss, gabbro and granite) and aromatic, light-bodied reds (Abouriou, Cabernet Franc, Côt, and Gamay).
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