The Jewel of Cumières

A visit to Vincent Laval's 0.15ha scrap of Les Longues Violes - the mid-slope parcel from which derives his celebrated cuvée of same name.

A fourth-generation vigneron in the south-facing Montagne de Reims village of Cumières, Vincent Laval enjoys an unblemished organic heritage in the Marne: his father, Georges, was among just seven of the region’s vignerons to resist the advent of herbicides and synthetic chemical agriculture in the 1970s. Vincent, who joined the estate in 1991, conducte…