July 11, 2011
With his somewhat unruly hair and corduroy jacket, it’s easy to imagine Virgile Joly as the science teacher that he almost became. If he hadn’t attended a university lecture about winemaking, making him decide to abandon his two years of studying to become a teacher and to switch to an oenology program, he might have [...]
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May 8, 2011
Even before a coalition of farmers, ecologists and communists threw down the gauntlet to Mondavi, this part of the Languedoc was already shedding its reputation for producing oceans of cheap wine. Winemakers like the coalition’s unofficial leader, Aimé Guibert, whose Mas de Daumas Gassac vineyard in Aniane produces an internationally renowned red, and Olivier Jullien, [...]
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