Les Chais Port de la Lune... Has Le Naturiste changed its niche? Are we now selling teas spiced with ginger and cardamom, drawn in a mixture of water and milk? No, of course not. We're not going to the land of a Thousand and One Nights, but to Bordeaux. The region? Not yet. Bordeaux, the city on the banks of the Garonne, whose crescent moon shape has earned it a nickname you might have already guessed... Port de la Lune.
If we don't land thousands of miles away, Bordeaux's Atlantic port, near the Bacalan district, remains a special place for winemaking. Laurent Bordes and Jules Biessy are based in the cité Claveau. Since 2017, they've been sweeping the dust off the garden city, and have set up their winery on the site of a rehabilitated blockhouse... a "wine barn". It is in this perfectly-tempered shelter, with its rather atypical design for a winery, that the juices are matured and stored. Vinification takes place in the cellar, making this winery very close to its original purpose: