Domaine des Ardoisières

Fréterive

In April 1997, the first stone of this unique domain, a meeting between Denis Perroux, mayor and his deputies Claude Rey, Gilbert Pivier, André Curtillat on the one hand, and the winemaker Michel Grisard of the Association Vivre en Tarentaise.

Between 1998 and 1999, first plantation 20 ares Altesse in the name of Louis and Fernand Pointet and André Hybord. The landowners cut their wood. The tracks are made. Didier Manghera with his "spider excavator" begins the stump removal and digging of the hillside. In January 2003, the meeting of Brice Omont and Michel Gisard will lead to the installation of Brice as a young winegrower in association with Michel Grisard in 2005. To become the majority manager of the slate field accompanied by 12 non-operating partners.

At the estate, 80% of the quality of the wine is obtained by rigorous work in the vines, which allows nature to express itself and which respects the living world. Each gesture that is carried out in the vineyard aims to transmit to the grapes, and therefore to the wine, the identity of each plot. This is why the estate is run biodynamically.