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Vincent et Tania Carême, Spring 2017 Vouvray

Friday 3 May 2019
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Vincent Carême is the son of arable farmers. His grandfather taught him to make wine and, bitten by the bug, he took himself off to the Lycée Viticole d’Amboise to study viticulture. Without family vines to inherit, he worked harvests in Sancerre, Champagne, Alsace, Thailand and South Africa. In 1997, working in South Africa, he met his future wife Tania. Two years later and back in the Loire, the couple set up their own estate with five hectares (12 acres).

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