{"title":"Romain Petiteau La Tourlaudiere","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuscadet has long been dismissed as a simple, inexpensive white made for oysters and little else. Romain Petiteau has spent the past decade proving that view wrong, farming his 21-hectare family estate with the care and ambition of someone who knows exactly what these schist and gneiss soils are capable of producing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Petiteau family has farmed in the village of La Tourlaudiere, between Vallet and La Chapelle-Heulin, since the 17th century. Romain's father Roland formally established the estate in 1976, and his mother Jeanine joined in 1982, gradually assembling the parcels that now make up the domaine. Romain began working on the estate in 2006, initially drawn more to forestry management than viticulture. He discovered, through careful tasting, that he had a natural aptitude for understanding wine, and in 2015 he officially took over leadership of the domaine. Since then he has converted the entire operation to organic viticulture, achieving certification in 2021, and has pushed toward increasingly natural winemaking, reducing sulfur additions and allowing indigenous yeasts to work without systematic intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/romain-petiteau-la-tourlaudiere\"\u003eRomain Petiteau La Tourlaudiere producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"albatar-cabernet-franc-romain-petiteau-la-tourlaudiere","title":"Romain Petiteau La Tourlaudiere Albatar Cabernet Franc 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eRomain Petiteau La Tourlaudiere Albatar Cabernet Franc is a natural red wine made from 100% Cabernet Franc grown in the Loire Valley, Pays Nantais, France. Low-intervention in the cellar, sustainable practices in the vineyards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Romain Petiteau La Tourlaudiere","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39429011046599,"sku":"TOURALBA18C","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/la-tourlandiere-albatar-cabernet-franc-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780186328"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/romain-petiteau-la-tourlaudiere.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}