GILLES LESIMPLE
Gilles Lesimple is a fourth generation vigneron based in the famous village of Chavignol in the heart of Sancerre. Gilles trained in California prior to taking the reins of his family's domaine in 1997 and soon thereafter began to bottle his own wine (until that time, the domaine had primarily sold their wine to local negociants for their own blends). The estate is unusual in containing all three of the main Sancerre soils types - limestone clay, decomposed flint and dry rocky chalk - and Lesimple blends all three expertly in producing his Sancerre. Using grapes from his own certified sustainable estate as well as neighboring properties, Lesimple follows a minimal intervention philosophy both in the vineyard and in the cellar, producing expressive wines that truly reflect the beautifully terroir from which they were born.
