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White and Colours are back together…

Within one month exactly, from the 1st to the 4th of May 2014, we will have the pleasure to welcome the artist painter #DianedeCicco at the Estate #MassonBlondelet , in #Pouilly-sur-Loire for the 2nd #FIAAC (International exhibition of actual art in Pouilly-Fume, Foire Internationale d’Art Actuel en #Pouilly-Fumé).
For this occasion, white and colours are back together…
17 estates from the label #Pouilly-Fumé (including Masson-Blondelet) will open their cellar to the painting which represents around  3000 m² of contemporary canvas exhibition.
Foire Internationale d'Art Actuel dans les Chais en Pouilly Fumé
To follow the whole FIAAC 2014 event and discover the portraits of wine-growers and artists of this future edition, as well as the marked out route with the Smartphone application in order to let you guide on the site, let’s meet on http://www.lesrdvdupf.org/
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Moon Calendar

It is back together with the sun…

We will be able to work back again the soils of our vines to obtain  Pouilly-Fumés and Sancerres still richer and concentrated…

Calendrier Lunaire 2014 reçu au Domaine Masson-Blondelet

And in the link You Tube below, Pierre-François Masson explains his work at the Estate. (Short film of 3’30 minutes).

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Pouilly-Fumé Villa Paulus 2012 in The Irish Times Magazine !!

“Delicious pristine mineral-laden green fruits and a crisp dry finish.”, this is the tasting comment  offered by the famous Irish magazine, The Irish Times, on the past 1st of March by choosing our  Pouilly-Fumé Villa Paulus 2012. We are so trying the following translation in french :

” Fruits verts chargés d’une minéralité immaculée et délicieuse, fraîcheur et vivacité en fin de bouche”

Pouilly Fumé Villa Paulus 2012  in The Irish Times Magazine

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Discovering the prunning of Pouilly-Fumé vines

It’s time to discover the prunning of Pouilly-Fumé vines for the pupils in nursery school in Pouilly-sur-Loire. Pierre-François Masson was very happy to show his profession to the children from the village and to the teaching team, who created this year a complete educational project around the vine.

PF Masson du Domaine Masson-Blondelet taille une vigne de Pouilly-Fumé avec l'école maternelle.My son, Louis, Pierre’s nephew happily participated to his first handling prunning shear lesson … To be continued !!

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The river Loire this morning at 7h43 and 7h47

The river Loire is wearing colours which can change literaly within a few minutes offering then a landscape diversity sometimes unsuspected…

Jean-Michel Masson shared this morning two pictures taken from 4 minutes interval.

La Loire à Pouilly le 24 fév 2014 prise par Jean-Michel Masson à 07h43La Loire à Pouilly le 24 fév 2014 prise par Jean-Michel Masson à 07h57But also this beautiful rainbow taken 3 days ago ….La Loire à Pouilly le 20 fév 2014 prise par Jean-Michel Masson vers 8h.La Loire à Pouilly le 20 fév 2014 prise par Jean-Michel Masson vers 8h.crédits photos : Jean-Michel Masson.

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Organic farming, clean viticulture, what are our choices ?

We do not want to join an organic seal of approval because we consider that an accumulation of copper in our soils would be very harmful on the long range. However, our way to cultivate the vine goes further than the « reasonnable » one, ie. : We have NOT used CHEMICAL FERTILIZER for over 40 years and we do NOT use HERBICIDE, NOR INSECTICIDE since 2002 !

Working our soils is crucial. It allows us for more than 30 years now, to favour the good development and the own character of each of our soils which are Flint, Portlandian limestone and Kimmeridgian marls. We use bare necessities of fungicides adding them to natural stimulators.

Pierre-François Masson, 7th generation of wine-growers at the Estate refuses the ready-made thinking.
This passionned man in his thirties, gardener and beekeeper when it comes, installed an insects hotel in a vine of one hectare of Pouilly-Fumé situated in the heart of the village to preserve the wintry survival of the insects useful for the pollination.

Hotel à insectes construit par Pierre-Francois Masson installé au coeur du vignoble de Pouilly-FuméInsects hotel built by Pierre-Francois Masson installed in the heart of the vineyard of Pouilly-Fumé

Hotel à insectes dans les vignes du Domaine Masson-BlondeletInsects hotel installed in Masson-Blondelet’s vines.

Pierre also installed hives in its personal kitchen garden, cultivated the same way as our vines, without weed-killer, nor insecticide, or fertiliser, in order to find a shelter for the bees, daily disappearing… This year, they are around a month ahead comparing to the past year.

Ruche installée par Pierre-François Masson à Pouilly sur Loire pour encourager la survie des abeilles.Hive installed by Pierre-François Masson in Pouilly sur Loire in order to encourage the survival of the bees.

At the cellar, our philosophy in terms of wine making process is to privilege physical treatments in order to banish the chemical ones (even the softest) and to use the less suffer as possible.
That is why we work with three main principles : The use of gravity (cellar half burried, built on three levels), the use of cold settling and the keeping of the fermentation CO2.
Our wish is to equip ourselves with the most reliable means as well as privileging human intervention, which is the only responsible for “the soul of the wine”.

We put a lot of ourselves in our vine culture and we are looking for perfection in our wine-making processes. So, we are proud that they bear our name, and that they please their final wine taster.

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Departure to the Emirates in February…

Not for us, 🙂 , but for our Pouilly-Fumé “Les Angelots” 2012 selected by the famous airline Emirates Airlines for its first class travelling  passengers …

Some pictures of the load below :

Pierre-François Masson charge du Pouilly-Fumé pour Emirates Airlines.
Pouilly-Fumé pour Emirates Airlines.

An hour later, the lorry is loaded, we still have to put a lead seal on the “precious good” and wish it a nice journey !!

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Angers Wine Fair : 03 to 05.02.14 : G 100. Pro Wein : Hall 5 A33

As every year since about twenty years, we shall leave soon for Angers and its 28th Fair of Wines of the Loire Valley.

Then, will come March and the time to leave for the “Messe” of Düsseldorf, PROWEIN : the new ‘rendez-vous‘ for the wine professionals of the globe.

We will be there from 23 to 25 March 2014, on the collective space of the Loire, in the HALL 5, Path A, number 33. See you then !

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January news

In January, 36 bottles of Pouilly-Fumé D’or et Diamant 2012 were ordered by the Chef Guy Martin for the mythical restaurant Le Grand Véfour, still together with the « usual » Pouilly-Fumé Villa Paulus and Pouilly Fumé Tradition Cullus.

 

Also, bottles of Pouilly-Fumé Villa Paulus were ordered to fill the astonishing dinning room of the Cristal Room Baccarat and the prestigious dinning room of the 1900’s style restaurant Le Victoria located in the Bedford Hotel in Paris.

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Further south, it’s the Chef Pierre Reboul, Michelin starred at Aix en Provence who’s ordering again Pouilly Fumé D’or et Diamant 2012 in January after offering it in December with a « Salmon and Petrossian caviar with smoked milk ».
Thank you Chef ! We can’t wait to discover which new « creative and entertaining »  combination you could reserve to your customer’s fine taste buds.

Back to Paris, in the end of January, as this famous Restaurant Petrossian  “Le 144” who closes the ball with an order of Pouilly-Fumé Villa Paulus…