Marie & Vincent Tricot

Raised in Anjou, near Savennières, Vincent Tricot discovered the world of wine during his first harvests where the desire to work in this world appeared to him little by little. He then decided to go and do a BTS in viti-oeno in the Beaujolais vineyard, a region where he met Marie, a Beaujolais by birth (his father had a trading house there).
His apprenticeship will then be with Guy Cotton. Guy, who worked at Jules Chauvet, will allow him to discover his first lively, natural and sulfur-free wines. The tasting encounter is here, Vincent will remain marked by it. Although they could do an internship with Marcel Lapierre, Vincent and Marie decided instead to see the winemaking techniques of New World wines. They are 27 years old, the age for long journeys.
They thus left for Chile, in a conventional field, Vincent having not managed to find an organic farming field in which to work... Once the experience had passed, they then decided to return to France and it was on the Languedoc appellation of Costières de Nîmes that he found a job: Vincent then found himself at the head of an estate of more than 120 ha, a real gas factory, which would last 3 years. In 2003 the couple arrived in Auvergne, they bought a 5ha estate which had been organic since 1971, lucky! The previous owner had even re-planted his plots 4 years previously with vines chosen through mass selection, a godsend for a young establishment. So here they are now neighbors of another legendary winemaker of Auvergne natural wines: Patrick Bouju.
In 2011, another important moment in the life of their estate, the choice to switch all of the vintages to sulfur-free. Vincent and Marie then decided to work only with the grapes and nothing but the grapes and the vintages that they were able to offer us to taste prove to us that natural wine has very, very good days ahead of it!