Chateau Haut Blanville
Sign in the tasting room at Chateau Haut Blanville I realise that it is 12 years since my previous visit to Château Haut Blanville with Bernard Nivollet. See a post dated 2014! And things have changed. The next generation of his two daughters have become very much involved in the estate, since 2022. Charlotte trained as an agricultural engineer and spent 16 years in Cambodia. S he returned to France in 2019 and studied winemaking at Suze-la-Rousse in the Rhône valley and is now the winemaker at Château Haut Blanville. And her sister Margaux studied commerce and deals with the administrative side of things. They now have 30 hectares of vines. T he area has fluctuated over the years, at one stage, reaching as much as 60 hectares, with a significant amount of rented vines. Bernard talked about the differences between the two generations. His daughters favour fruit and...
