About Domaine Les Poete
Guillaume Sorbe, the winemaker behind Domaine Les Poete, is committed to doing things his own way. Although he comes from a family of winemakers in the Cher region of the Loire Valley, Guillaume left home to become first a chef and then a sommelier, learning the wine trade from new perspectives. Upon returning home in 2007, he decided to stay and launch his own project in winemaking. Starting from zero and slowly acquiring 28 distinct plots throughout the Loire, Domaine Les Poets maintains its roots in the terroir and culture of the Cher Valley. As Guillaume continues to harvest and maintain these vineyards separately, his approach to winemaking is unified under one guiding principle: that in winemaking, less is more.
With this ethos in mind, Domaine Les Poete is a unique project that is first and foremost dedicated to creating quality wines by preserving the innate properties of a terroir that has long produced some of the best wines in the world. For Guillaume, this begins with the soil. Across his vineyards, Guillaume has established a tailored approach to regenerative farming that relies on plant and animal diversity to produce nutrient dense soil. In addition to grapes, Guillaume farms a range of vegetation and animals, including chickens and sheep, the waste from which he uses as fertilizer. In the cellar, his approach is equally considered. Not only are his wines produced without additives, but Guillaume prefers a long elevage in barrel while still maintaining the purity of the fruit. The final results are wines that are structured, but elegant.