Audrey Pilorget

Touraine, Loire, France

Audrey Pilorget is based in the small town of Bourré in the Loir-et-Cher department of Touraine. In her own words, she is now living her ‘third life’. After many years spent in Alsace making wine, and then another 10 living in Paris as a caviste, her journey has now brought her to the tranquil hills of the Loire, where she makes her wines today. 

Audrey is a viticulture teacher, and on the side she makes a humble 5000 bottles a year in what used to be an old stone quarry, cut into the hillside below her home in the village. Everything here is as manual as it gets. Wine is moved from her manual basket press to a settling tank and then to old barriques one bucket at a time. Even the slow, laborious task of bottling is done by hand using a very simple, ‘one-bottle-at-a-time’ instrument. 

Herein lies the beauty and stillness of these wines. They are authentic, fresh, and brimming with Audrey’s energy, transmitted in a way that only handcrafted wines of this nature are able to exude. They are zero-zero, and show a precision and stability that is often hard to come by in this category. 

Audrey’s wines are limited and hard to find, so we are thrilled to be able to offer these singular bottlings to UK drinkers.