La Folie Lucé - Loïc Terquem
Created in 2009 on the Saumur Champigny appellation in Dampierre-sur-Loire (originally on 1ha in Cabernet Franc) by Loïc Terquem, formerly IT manager, after a year of training at the Montreuil-Bellay wine school, and an internship at Mathieu Vallee
(Castle Yvonne).
The name of the estate is composed of that of one of the first 3 plots named "La Folie" (which could also sum up the choice to decide to leave Paris to try to make wine without having any particular link with this environment or this region) and the initials of the first names of our 2 sons Lucas and César
The estate now has 6.0 ha of vines, certified organic since 2009, spread over 16 plots, including 5.2 ha of Cabernet Franc and 80 ares of Chenin.
The subsoils of Saumur are essentially limestone, covered either with clay, sandy silt or more or less deep sand.
The harvest is carried out by hand, and the wines are neither yeasted nor seeded.
The plots are vinified separately to better reveal the terroirs, in concrete vats, then depending on the cuvées the wines are aged either in concrete vats, in barrels or in sandstone jars.
The fermentations are carried out as much as possible without sulphites, with a little sulfur being added at bottling.
My objectives: to produce sincere wines, reflecting the grape variety, the terroir and the vintage.