Producer Barbara Lebled

FRANCE, LOIRE

Barbara Lebled is a young and enterprising winemaker located in Saint-Aignane, a commune in the Touraine department, in central Loire. Barbara built her skills and her passion for vines and wine by working side by side with her father Laurente. The turning point came in 2019, when the father bought 10 hectares of vineyards and a cellar from a retired vigneron, and proposed to Barbara not only to help him manage the cellar, but also to cultivate about 3 hectares of vineyards to launch her own project. Barbara's choice is towards organic farming, and in the vineyard we find almost all the ampelographic complexity of the central Loire: from Gamay to Côt. Few fertilizers in the field (only organic and essentially recycled from the vine), low yields, winter grassing, spring harrowing and of course… no synthetic chemistry! In the cellar Barbara does not follow pre-packaged recipes. Each cuvée, each terroir, each grape variety, each blend and each vintage has its own story. What unites the approach of each wine is instead the rejection of corrective oenology. Indigenous yeasts for the fermentations, carbonic macerations, very limited use of sulphites, and no forced clarification. Thus was born a kaleidoscope of bottles, colors and interpretations, united by a great expressive spontaneity and a rare gustatory energy. The first vintage is that of 2019, with the wine called "Gamay Sans Toi".