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Cave Talmard is the family estate of Mallory and Benjamin Talmard in Uchizy, in the Mâconnais. The Talmard name appears in the local wine registers as early as the 17th century, and in 1997 Paul Talmard handed the estate to his daughter Mallory and son-in-law Benjamin. Their son Marco has taken an increasingly active role since returning in 2025.
Mallory and Benjamin have grown the estate from 16 to 40 hectares. They plant only Chardonnay and keep yields to 68hl/ha. The vines sit within a mixed family farm with cereals, beef cattle and glorious flower meadows, and the family champion biodiversity in action, even if they don't always want to tie themselves to the bureaucracy that goes with it.
The wines are full-flavoured and genuine, covering a range of village and single-vineyard sites – from Mâcon-Uchizy and Mâcon-Chardonnay to Mâcon-Montbellet "La Bergerie" and Mâcon-Chardonnay "La Presse Silencieuse". A domaine very much on the rise, yet aware of its time and place in the environment.
Viticulture >
Uchizy is a small village in the northern part of the Maconnais, where the flat, rich alluvial plain beside the Saone River starts to rise towards the limestone outcrops to the West. The 30 hectare estate is planted entirely with Chardonnay on soils of limestone with a clay/loam topsoil. The majority of the vineyards face south/south east and the climate is continental with warm summers and cold winters. The farming approach is minimum intervention.
Chardonnay
12.5
FRANCE
12
Cork
Cave Talmard
Vegan
Vegetarian 
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