Livre Vins de Cassis

DOMAINE SAINT-LOUIS JAYNE

Laurent Jayne

Cassidaine de longue date, la famille Jayne a toujours travaillé la terre. En 1993, Laurent Jayne reprend la propriété familiale et crée le Domaine Saint-Louis Jayne, à partir du vignoble planté par son grand-père Alphonse, dit «Fonfon», polyculteur et inspirateur de Laurent qui n’a pas oublié de lui rendre hommage à travers une cuvée éponyme. BTS d’œnologie en poche, il n’a depuis cessé de soigner ses vieilles vignes, de travailler le vignoble à l’ancienne et de peaufiner ses vins, porté par l’attachement à la terre familiale et par une vraie passion pour ce métier. «Je suis tombé tout petit dans la marmite du vin, le métier de vigneron me fascinait.» Laurent Jayne est tout sauf un tiède. «Un caractère entier qui ne marche qu’à la passion», précise son épouse. Imperméable aux modes et au marketing, farouchement indépendant, Laurent Jayne trace son sillon comme il l’entend mais avec une vraie fidélité à Cassis. «C’est un terroir qui a une âme» aime-t-il à répéter, et ses vins le prouvent.

« Je suis tombé tout petit dans la marmite du vin, le métier de vigneron me fascinait. »

“I’ve had wine in my veins since a very early age, and the idea of being a wine- grower myself was always a fascination.”

The Jayne family have been in Cassis for many years, and have always worked the land. In 1993, Laurent Jayne took over the family property and created Domaine Saint-Louis Jayne from the vineyard planted by his grandfather Alphonse, better known as ‘Fonfon’, who was a mixed farmer and the inspiration for Laurent, who has now celebrated his memory by naming one of his wines after him. Since obtaining his BTS vocational training certificate in wine studies, he has continually tended his old vines, worked the vineyard in the traditional way and refined his wines driven by his close attachment to the family land and his real passion for the work. “I’ve had wine in my veins since a very early age, and the idea of being a wine-grower myself was always a fascination”. Laurent Jayne is anything but half-hearted about his choice. “He’s a single-minded person driven only by passion”, says his wife. Immune to fashion and marketing, and fiercely independent, Laurent Jayne ploughs his own furrow, but with an uncompromising loyalty to Cassis. “It’s a terroir with a soul”, as he is prone to say, and his wines prove precisely that.

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