DOMAINE LE FAY D’HOMME, France

In 1986, Vincent Caillé took the lead in running the family vineyard’s operations, since when he has produced premium quality wines of the highest standard, combining low intervention and traditional methods that truly express the local Muscadet Sevre et Maine terroir. Terre de Gneiss and Terre de Gabbro, made in association with Christelle Guibert, are examples of wonderful modern Muscadets rooted in the terroir produced using a combination of traditional and biodynamic viticultural practices with exceptional quality as their overriding goal.

Viticulture

Christelle created Vine Revival with her sister Corinne, and immediately called Vincent Caillé from Domaine Le Fay d’Homme to forge a union. ‘Terre de Gneiss’ and ‘Terre de Gabbro’ are the result of this association; modern Muscadets, based on terroir, stemming from traditional and biodynamic viticulture practices. These wines have a certain complexity which will allow them to have space amongst prestigious wines from a region in full renewal! Both Christelle and the Caillé family have experienced many challenges in the past seven years, from severe frosts to serious power outages that at one point caused the loss of their entire harvests; despite everything, Vincent and Christelle have managed to move beyond that, keeping quality as their main goal producing excellent wines each vintage.

Winemaking

In the cellar, as a logical continuation of the work carried out in the vineyard, Vincent vinifies in a traditional manner in order to produce wines as naturally as possible with indigenous yeasts and long aging on lees. His cuvées, commanding high prices, are remarkably dense and sensitive, restoring the reputation of a resurgent appellation. As he likes to say, Vincent Caillé is doing “his part”, like the little hummingbird in the Native American legend.