Benjamin Leroux Pommard 2017 Brand_Oakridge The fruit for this wine

The fruit for this wine is sourced from Scarborough's Gillards Road property and other vineyards from the Hunter Valley with the same soil type

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Didier Defaix is therefore the vineyard's emblematic vigneron (and the site's only certified organic grower)

I can’t think of another single-vineyard wine that had its first vintage from centenarian vines and has continued to be made for another 64 years

Benjamin Leroux Pommard 2017 Brand_Oakridge The fruit for this wineBenjamin Leroux was born in Beaune, not to a vigneron family, but decided in his teens that he wanted to make wine and at the age of 13 attended the Lyce Viticole in Baune. After his oenology studies, he worked at Cos d'Estournel in Bordeaux, Domaine Drouhin in Oregon, Louis Jadot in Beaune before making a name for himself as the rgisseur (general manager) of Domaine du Comte Armand in Pommard. Benjamin Leroux established a small negociant business in