Ever since we chose to become winegrowers, and then to make wine, our aim has been, and remains, to make wine as simply as possible: to let the grapes we have cultivated throughout the year speak for themselves. This seemingly simple aim, so self-evident, continuing the work of the generations of winegrowers who came before us, has clashed with the vineyard’s recent history. What has been called modernisation. From this, we have used what seemed relevant to us to ease this arduous and demanding work, and to gain in precision. But we have rejected everything that, in our view, could trivialise the origin of our grapes, such as ‘correcting’ the harvest, adding yeast, cold stabilisation, filtration, and massive doses of sulphites. And I’m sure I’m forgetting some…

That would be the ideal: a blank page every year, blank pages every year, one for each vineyard. But the actors are there: the vines that won’t change their place and in which we always have the same feelings when we go to work, like relationships with work colleagues—colleagues who have their own character, their quirks that don’t change easily.

And the weather, never the same from one year to the next, like a star with its whims. The directors: Alice and Olivier, interpreting this story, making it understandable, drinkable.

To find out more, read the statement by Olivier and Alice De Moor.