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1985 Lestage-Simon

Lestage Simon

Bordeaux / France

Red

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0 Immediate | 2 Marketplace

£33.00

Marco Simonit: the saviour of terroir

Marco Simonit is one of the modern viticultural heroes of our time. We explore how his pioneering work and tireless research have saved some of the world's greatest terroirs Through his work with the likes of Domaine Leroy and Chateau Y’quem, Marco Simonit grew to understand that vine age is central to vineyards expressing their terroir. Without age, the vineyards ...

ON March 28, 2018

Marco Simonit on Why Old Vines Matter

Marco Simonit has been at the forefront of modern viticulture techniques aimed at protecting old vines from disease and decay ever since vineyards worldwide became crippled by ever-escalating levels of vine disease in the last decade. Since the ban of chemical preventions came into practice across Europe in the early 2000s, vine disease has grown to epidemic proportions, including in ...

BY Gavin Smith,

ON July 13, 2020

Simonit & Sirch Launch New Pruning Course

ON November 27, 2019

'Wine Anorak' Jamie Goode Meets Marco Simonit

With the upcoming release of L’Età Più Bella (With Age comes Beauty) – the first collection of wines made exclusively from old vines managed by Marco Simonit – we thought who better to extrapolate the important elements behind Marco’s philosophy than celebrated wine writer and self-confessed 'wine anorak': Jamie Goode. Jamie explores Marco's rise to fame - from his formative ...

BY Jamie Goode,

ON July 13, 2020

A Very Social Enterprise: Marco Simonit Visits London's Forty Hall Vineyard

Thursday of this week was a great day to find oneself in a vineyard. The sun was low in the sky on a cold December morning as 35 local volunteers arrived to start the winter pruning. But it was no ordinary vineyard. It was London’s one and only fully-functioning commercial vineyard, found in the outskirts of Enfield at the Forty ...

ON December 14, 2018