Vinocity in partnership with The City of Wine
Courselle vineyards
Guests
Marie Courselle
Sylvie Courselle
Florence Maffrand for the meeting program and Agenda of The City of Wine
With an average production of 500,000 bottles per year, the Courselle vineyards show great momentum. Since the 1950s, this family of winegrowers from Sauve-Majeure in Gironde has been able to impose a style, know-how and undeniable value for money. In Vinocité, we welcome the third generation, the two sisters Marie and Sylvie, inseparable and complementary who, while continuing the work of grandfather André and their father Francis, also invent other more personal wines that are still just as convivial.
The Courselle novel
The history of the Courselle Family Vineyards began in 1950 when André Courselle bought Château Thieuley and undertook to create a wine estate there. In 1972, his son Francis Courselle, then a young agricultural engineer and professor of viticulture, decided to accelerate the development of the vineyard. In 30 years, the cultivated area has increased from 4 to 80 hectares, currently spread over three estates: Château Thieuley, Clos Saint Anne and Château Saint Genès. Sylvie and Marie Courselle, Francis’ daughters, inherited the family passion. Both engineers and oenologists, they gradually took over the destinies of Thieuley. When their first daughter Marie was born in 1976, Marie-Joëlle and Francis Courselle were far from imagining that she and her sister Sylvie, born two years later, would take over the destinies of Thieuley. It must be said that as a true enthusiast, Francis naturally bathed his daughters from an early age in the world of vines and wine. Marie and Sylvie Courselle are both agricultural engineers and oenologists. They have enriched their knowledge through many experiences abroad by making wine in Australia, California, Italy but also in Burgundy, Languedoc Roussillon and Châteauneuf du Pape. At Château Thieuley, they shared the tasks: Marie is in charge of the technical part (vineyard and cellar) and Sylvie takes care of the commercial part. Together, Marie and Sylvie take up all the challenges to maintain the quality of their father’s work.
Wines
Wines historical
The wines of Courselle Sisters
Château Thieuley”Le Thieuley”
33670 The Major Rescue
Tel: 05 56 23 00 01
Email: [email protected]
Not to be missed at La Cité du Vin
3rd Wine and Health meeting: consumption and moderation February 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A thousand and one reasons and ways of drinking exist and can coexist or follow one another in the same drinker: to taste, to get drunk, to lift one’s inhibitions, to commit suicide quietly, by excess in conviviality, in isolation , by dependence, in the search for massive alcoholism, starting early in life or later, with periods of abstinence or relapses, every day or not, on an empty stomach in the morning, or at the table, with a single type of alcohol or with several, etc.
after work wines from around the world and sweet specialties from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
These gourmet events highlight the gastronomic heritage of New Aquitaine and wines from around the world produced by wine-growing communities, holders of centuries-old know-how.