Jo Landron
If this site’s purpose was not to explore some of the world’s most fascinating wines, but instead to discover and describe some of the world’s most magnificent moustaches, there is a fairly good chance I would still be a regular visitor to the Loire. Voluminous facial hair seems to be de rigueur on the Ligérian wine scene, leading me to wonder whether we could rank these extravagant displays in the same manner as we have ranked Bordeaux châteaux. I find the concept of rating moustaches perhaps as premier, deuxième and troisième cru, with some sort of cru bourgeois-type system for sideburns, all rather appealing. And there is no doubt in my mind that the munificent moustache belonging to Jo Landron would easily secure a place near the very top of this new whiskery classification.
Sadly (and I know you’re as deeply disappointed as I am) the likelihood of such a helpful classification being drawn up seems very slim indeed. And so we should perhaps stick to wine for the time being. Happily for Jo, if judged purely on his wine and not his bounteous handlebars, he and his wines would still rank very highly. We have here one of the leading vignerons of the Muscadet Sèvre et Maine region; he has two domaines to his name, Domaine de la Louvetrie and Clos la Carizière, although it is the wines of the former for which he is best known. His story, and his wines, are worth exploring.
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