Nicolas Lesaint

Winemaker of Château Reignac

In order to succeed in fine, elegant, harmonious aerial cuvées, it is essential that one must practice the hautecouture culture, cutting, touching, cutting, weighing a shoot, estimating a skin tension or the temperature of one Tank by a fleeting passage of the palm of the hand on its surface. One must know how to sharpen one’s gaze and love the beautiful.

But despite this, I remain convinced that a wine is not a work of art because it is much more than that.

It is a concentration of life, it is a crystallization of the gift of self, it is the image of a society and a connection with a life requiring terrestrial links. It is a social bond marking each amateur in the depths of his taste buds revealing a story, memories, happiness, pleasure or pain.

It is a political and social commitment, a catalyst of passions and emotions in the same way as a sculpture realized with force and perspiration. But I know that the most passionate winegrowers refuse to be compared to creative artists, they are far too modest for that. Yes, having an artistic sensitivity strengthens the trade and enriches the drink. But this fermented juice must remain simple in its interpretation and consumption. These wines that we develop for you are there to accompany your life at all without being presented as something necessarily cerebrally complex. They are there to be associated with beautiful things, to magnify those beautiful things like your moments of life, your joys, your sorrows, those that build your personality and which make sure that your other half is always in love with you.

Yes, wine is more than a work of art it is what you make of it every moment, it participates in the eternity of man because «it belongs to him and every second of tasting contains it…