Ormiale

Bordeaux redefined

Parisian, artist, designer and having lived in Milan for a long time, nothing in the world would have led Fabrice Domercq to become a winegrower... in Bordeaux. However, it was there that he launched himself, with his friend Jasper Morrison, in 2007, on an estate in the Entre-Deux-Mers region south of St-Émilion.

The story begins a few years earlier, when Fabrice's mother, Michèle, was looking for a country house to spend her old days in. Her search led her by chance to Bordeaux, where, in 2006, she came across an old farmhouse next to an old winery. The property included a few plots of vines, until then cultivated for the region's cooperative cellar, and this was all it took to arouse Fabrice's curiosity and overflowing ambition. It was decided that he would make wine!

With the help of his lifelong friend, Jasper, he set up the crazy project of making natural wine in Bordeaux. Ormiale? A contraction of the first names of Fabrice and his partner Caroline's children, Igor, Mailo, Alexandre and Achile.

In addition to the Ormiale cuvée from 2007, a 100% Merlot cuvée, in stainless steel, the aptly named Merlotinox, the sparkling rosé James in 2015, and other more confidential wines such as Spéciale, Pressé and Mariole, have been added over the years, giving free rein to Fabrice's overflowing imagination. The grapes are de-stemmed by hand, the vinification is done without inputs and the maturation is controlled. The wines shine with depth and complexity, carried by a mineral freshness and a silky touch.

In 2021, the dream of a lifetime came true, the cellar was moved to the heart of the old village of Saint-Emilion, in an old quarry. A real jewel for shaping and maturing the wines and a playground that will allow Fabrice to experiment again and again, with whites, cuvées in "dames-jeannes", new grape varieties... to be continued!