Ormial

Nothing predestined Fabrice Domercq to become a winegrower in Bordeaux, absolutely nothing! Fabrice initiates the Ormiale adventure with his friend Jasper Morrisson. He is a visual artist, a Parisian designer, living in Milan and Jasper is an industrial designer in London. However, they found themselves in 2007 at the head of the Ormiale estate located in Entre-Deux-Mers, a few kilometers south of Saint-Emilion. It was while helping his mother look for a country house for her retirement, a quest which led him in 2006 on this side of Bordeaux to an old farm with an old vat room and a few plots of vines attached to it that the idea was born at Fabrice. We will now have to make wine, and natural wine at that! They then recovered 2ha of vines located in Côtes de Castillon and Côtes de Francs.
A lifelong friend, Jasper also embarked on this crazy adventure and the first vintage of Ormiale was released in 2007. The estate then chose to work biodynamically and was certified by Demeter. Little by little, Fabrice takes things in hand and Jasper moves away from the daily life of the estate. In 2022, Fabrice will recover a new vat room dug into the rock in the heart of Saint-Emilion. It is here, at a cool and constant temperature, that he will be able to continue the Ormiale adventure.
All the harvests are carried out manually and all the bunches are destemmed by hand, the rest is done by gravity, no pumps therefore, either in a tronic tank or in a stainless steel tank. Aging is often done in wooden containers: oak barrels, sometimes cherry barrels, of 225, 500 and 600 liters and for a period of more or less 18 months. Fabrice invents, researches, experiments constantly. Proof of this is the Lies vintage which is made from lees and other winemaking residues usually put down the drain.
The Ormiale estate thus offers us resolutely modern, precise Bordeaux wines with disconcerting depth. Great Bordeaux!