Christophe Baudry owns Domaine de la Perrière in CRAVANT LES COTEAUX. He is the sixth generation of a wine growing family. He took over from his parents, Jean and Marie-Claire, in 1990.
Christophe knows perfectly well the terroir of Chinon with all its subtlety, as well as the people of his region… he is the elected mayor of Cravant-les-Coteaux, the main village of the CHINON appellation.
Carrying on the tradition, Christophe is in charge of sales.
Jean-Martin DUTOUR is passionate about wine. He moved to the Chinon region as the head of Domaine du Roncée in 1993 after achieving the viti-oenologue diploma from Montpellier, the premier ‘Grande Ecole’ for viticulture, and was ready to apply the best practices which he had experienced in other vineyards: putting grass in the vineyard, trellising the vines, removing leaves, carefully vinifying the whole fruit… all techniques which are now accepted by all other growers.
When he arrived in this unfamilliar region, he was welcomed by Christophe Baudry and thanks to his rigour and dynamism he quickly gained acceptance as an expert.
Jean-Martin organizes the work in the vineyard and winery.
Today, BAUDRY-DUTOUR runs 4 estates in CHINON, each with the same high standard of quality — a daily effort requiring the mastery of both ancestral and innovative methods to reveal the essence of their distinctive and varied lands.
In addition to the wine quality standards our daily concern is to reduce our environmental impact. We purify our waste water by lagooning, sort our rubbish for recycling, use renewable energy (ventilation) to maintain a cool temperature in the winery and we are involved in the process of drastically reducing our use of phytosanitary products.
But this means nothing without a strong social involvement. By improving the quality, we have a new approach to our work which allows us to manage the workload throughout the year and to maintain employment. For example by abandoning the competition between harvesting by hand and harvesting by machine, and using the advantages of each technique.
We do what we call “vendanges negatives” that is we hand-select only the best grapes, discarding the others, and then we can harvest the best grapes more rapidly by machine. This also creates work to do before the harvest, normally a slack period.
Our approach has created stable and long-term jobs instead of seasonal and short-term jobs.
The City of Chinon has embarked on a voluntary policy to promote contemporary art.
Since 2009, BAUDRY-DUTOUR has supported artists who exhibit at the Contemporary Gallery of Chinon’s town hall.
Currently it has helped Coskun, Cécile Hartmann, Pierre Caron, as well as young artists from the region.
EN The resident - Cécile Hartmann
Exposition : Modern Solitude
Galerie Contemporaine de l’Hôtel de Ville.
Novembre/décembre 2009.
EN Bettina Clark et Pougnaud
Exposition : Femme y es-tu
Galerie Contemporaine de l’Hôtel de Ville.
Juillet août 2009.
EN Sandrine Azara / Léna Nikcevic (visuel Sandrine Azara)
Exposition: Halo
Galerie Contemporaine de l’Hôtel de Ville.
Du 24 avril au 6 juin 2010.
