Comments on: Wine In Paris – Au Naturel

By: Julien Courtois “Originel” « Lou

Julien Courtois “Originel” « Lou — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:00:48 +0000

[...] Julien Courtois is a vigneron who lives and works in the Touraine region of France’s Loire valley. He grows both red and white wines on soil that’s flecked with quartz (silex), and uses no synthetics in his vineyards and chai, bottling with the barest minimum of sulfur (for export only—no sulfur is used for bottles sold in France). Courtois does not use synthetic herbicides, pesticides and fungicides, but does use biodynamic herb and mineral preparations on his vines, and fertilizes his vineyard soils with composted farm animal manure. Very much a poster boy for vin naturel. [...]

By: Adam Morganstern

Adam Morganstern — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:03:38 +0000

Hi Alice, this article was written a while back. When we transfered articles from our old site, they all got the new date stamped on them. If our readers would like to learn more about what Pierre is up to now, go to http://www.morethanorganic.com.

By: AliceFeiring

AliceFeiring — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:39:58 +0000

This article (?) was dated March 2008, Pierre had sold La Cremerie in late 2007. The place is still adorable, but the ambience is quite different and the new owner, while affable and the food quite good, is not what it was when it was Pierre’s.