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Thomas Pico Pattes Loup visit in Courgis Chablis

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Thomas Pico is a very young producer located at the edge of Chablis in the village of Courgis. Thomas study enology in Beaune, his family are traditional producer in Chablis with the Domaine Boys D'Yver. In 2004 take over from his family 8 hectare of vineyard and converted in organic farming, currently certified Ecocert. 2006 was the first vintage bottle under the name Pattes Loup. All his production and family production are certified organic. We visit him not long ago in our trip to Chablis, quite unforgettable experience we arrived in the afternoon around 4:30pm and we were welcome by a nice lady, she was very kind and let us tasted some wines while we were waiting Thomas. The wine was the 2013 vintage a quite rich fatty vintage but the wines of Pattes Loup especially the 1er cru Vaillons and Beauregard were fully of energy with slight rich apple nose, fresh, clean and tension. When Thomas arrived we went into the cellar and show us the way he work with his grape, trad...