Imogen and Robin met whilst studying together in the Languedoc. They had both moved to the region as children with their families (Imogen from England and Robin from the Alsace), grown up there, but had fallen into winemaking in different ways. Robin did his first harvest at 12 years old in his mum’s vineyard and Imogen ended up doing the harvest while on gap year in Chile and Argentina. After studying they worked for a winemaker in South Africa for a while and then moved back to the Languedoc and started Le Quais à Raisins in 2015.
With a minisucle 1.5 hectares of their own vines, Imogen and Robin bulk out their production doing a variety of negociant wines, using grapes from grower friends of theirs in the Languedoc, the Rhone valley and the Roussillon. These are growers who they trust and the spectrum of regions these growers are based in means that the terroirs can vary greatly across their range of wines. All of their plots and the plots of the growers they work with are farmed organically and biodynamically whenever practically possible.
In cellar the pair are as meticulous and precise as possible. They both studied science and for them making wine is a careful balance of passion, work and science. The main aim in their winemaking is to produce wines which are precise, elegant expressions of terroirs but always ultimately delicious and drinkable.
