A Vine Grower's craft

The gesture, taking action, is the link between men and tools. You can not cheat with gestures they are honed and made natural only thru time and experience. Gesture is cautious and silent, it can be overlooked but it is a key to excellence. A liana longing for freedom, the magic of perfectly arranged rows, the sight of beautiful grapes this is the gift of nature for precise and well carried out gestures. A farmer’s touch made of respect, awe and innovation, always…

Respect of nature starts with humility one should accept its power, it is also contemplation of its wonders and an acute consciousness of it frailty. Your craft is a dialog not a monolog, sometime you must trim the shoots to leave the wind brush the grapes and leaves to help them dry, sometimes they must be left to their own devise to protect the fruits from a roaring sunshine. The soil must naturally cover itself with vegetation to protect its structure and its fertility, battle erosion and stormy rains. The vine grower’s craft is to accompany the vineyards, to let himself be tutored by nature to produce grapes that reflect their origin as well as a full aromatic potential.

Our family has been producing grapes for more than 400 years, us still beeing around today is not a coincidence, each period as presented itself with new challenges and our family has been able to adapt, plan, stayed open to the world and to novelties with eyes firmly set on the future. Todays challenges are great, make work less strenuous to atract a new generation and protect senior workers, maintain a healthy and fertile soil for the generations to come, adapt the growing technics to a changing climate, consume less and produce better.

Welcome in our vineyards