The Stony Brook University Center for Wine, Food, and Culture hosted a major international symposium titled “The Art of Balance: Cool Climate/Maritime Wines in a Global Context,” at its Southampton campus on Long Island. The two-day symposium featured advanced educational presentations and wine tastings led by prominent winemakers and vineyard managers from top wineries in cool climate/maritime winegrowing regions around the world.

Wednesday, August 6 Part 7
Pascal Jolivet, Owner/Winemaker, Pascal Jolivet (Loire Valley, France)
The Challenge of Natural Winemaking in the Loire
Born to a Loire family long dedicated to wine, but owning no vineyards, Jolivet apprenticed at Pommery (Champagne), then became a négociant of Pouilly-Fumé wines, putting his own name on the business in 1987, when he expanded into Sancerre. Since then, he has built up a miniature empire of vineyards, and a reputation as an innovative producer of “natural” wines.