A Perfect Partnership
Owners: Gontran and Agnes Dondain - investors
Michel Fabre - wine maker
Michel Fabre, the wine maker, was born in Bize-Minervois. He is now back in his hometown after spending eight years in Provence, where he managed wine-growing and processing at the 'Domaine des Chaberts', Coteaux Varois, and made the wine into one of the best Provence 'Crus'. He was awarded a dozen gold and silver medals, including several times the Hachette 'Coups de Coeur'. Michel Fabre belongs to the new generation of wine-makers (vito, oeno, management, communication) who have helped to revive the Languedoc wines, and who will, without doubt, lead them to the top of the worldwide 'Grand Crus'.
| Gontran Dondain, the owner, is a specialist of the food industry. He presides over the family company, a world leader in a product used for oenology, gum arabic. For a quarter of a century he has been working with the main oenological laboratories and field oenologists in France, and is consequently well abreast of recent developments in the world of wine making. He has been in a position to follow the fantastic progress made in 'wine technology' and to sense the different wine models that will dominate in the 21Ist century. |
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Those wines, elaborated with 'rational growing methods', combined with 'Cepages and Terroir', generate a limited production of Premium Wines.
This permanent quality research ensures a product which, with moderation, will keep you in good health.
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A Perfect Match The domain is made up of terroirs of three different types 'Le Plateau de Belveze' is a soil that dates from the villafranchien period (end of the tertiary, beginning of the quarternary), with stones of a metamorphic nature that come essentially from the 'Montagne Noire', and were originally deposited by a glacier. |
'Les Garrigots' is a recent soil of river borne alluvial origin. The presence of an important layer of pebbles ensures a good drainage which favours the production of low yielding red wines. This kind of soil is nevertheless quite demanding, in terms of organic matter or organo-minerals, in order to avoid water stress and to preserve it's nutritive potential.
'Le Mont des Capitelles' is a slope facing south (18%), constituted from a sandstone base of a metamorphic nature. the soil is deep and of poor quality. Water alimentation is good (no drought risk), it is a perfect soil for growing white grape varieties and Grenache. Wines produced on this soil display elegance, aroma and complexity.
The see the list of Chateau Cabezac wines that we offer go to our Wine List.
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Vineyards Wine Company, The Vineyards, Broadwas on Teme, Worcester. WR6 5NZ.
Telephone: (01886) 821346. Email: info@vineyardswinecompany.co.uk
