Documentário gravado em Maio de 2022 com Nicolas Joly, a principal referência mundial da viticultura biodinâmica.
Nicolas reflete sobre os destinos da agricultura da humanidade, conta com sua memória fantástica para falar de uma aventura na América do Sul e do seu trabalho no mercado financeiro em Nova York e Londres e presenteia o espectador com fragmentos deliciosos de pequenas histórias que viveu.
Nicolas também alerta para a gravidade do aquecimento global e o perigo da poluição hertziana, causada pelos satélites e frequências de celulares e equipamentos que usam GPS e sinais de satélite.
Ele fala também da padronização dos vinhos e da valorização do terroir.
Aos 77 anos, Nicolas garantiu o futuro do Coulée de Serrant através do trabalho de sua filha Virginie, que nasceu entre os vinhedos e segue aprendendo com o pai e com a natureza, os segredos da biodinâmica.
Um documentário delicioso para os amantes do vinho e especial para os amantes de vinhos orgânicos, naturais e biodinâmicos.
NIcolas Joly é o proprietário do Château de la Roche aux Moines, em Savennières, no Vale do Loire.
É a grande referência mundial quando o assunto é viticultura biodinâmica.
Nicolas Joly (born 1945) is a French winegrower in the Loire wine region, and one of the pioneers and leading personalities of the biodynamic wine movement.
Joly studied at Columbia University and subsequently worked for J.P. Morgan in New York City as an investment banker. He was later posted to London, but left banking in 1977 to take over his family's wine estate, Château de la Roche aux Moines in Savennières.
At the time he took over the family estate, Joly was sceptical about modern agriculture and the effect it had on nature. He encountered a book on biodynamic farming and took an active interest in the ideas found there, and from 1980 started to experiment with them in his wine estate. From 1981, the estate's top wine Clos de la Coulée de Serrant has been made biodynamically, and from 1984 the estate's entire range has been produced biodynamically. Coulée de Serrant is among the very few single vineyards monopole to be granted its own Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée; others include Romanée-Conti, La Tâche, and Château-Grillet.
Joly has later written extensively on biodynamic wine production, and has served as an inspiration to many other wine producers who have converted to biodynamic practices.
His biodynamic convictions also means that Joly disapproves of the label "winemaker" to the extent that his business card is reported to read "Nicolas Joly, Gérant de la Société, Nature assistant and not a winemaker".
Nicolas Joly and his Château de la Roche aux Moines hold all 7 hectares (17 acres) of Savennières most celebrated enclave, Coulée de Serrant, which is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée of its own, Savennières-Coulée-de-Serrant. Joly's wine from this appellation is labelled Clos de la Coulée de Serrant and is often mentioned as one of the world's best dry white wines.
The range of wines consists of:
Clos de la Coulée de Serrant, from the appellation Savennières-Coulée-de-Serrant
In some vintages, a moelleux (sweet) version of Clos de la Coulée de Serrant is also produced.
Clos de la Bergerie, from the appellation Savennières-Roche-aux-Moines
Les Vieux Clos, from the appellation Savennières. This wine is labelled Les Clos Sacrés when it is exported to the United States.
In recent years, Nicolas Joly's daughter, Virginie Joly, has taken over much of the task of running the estate.