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Our family venture is
first of all a human project. The vineyard, which is
modest in size, represents the life work for my
grandparents, Italians who immigrated to France in the
1920’s making wine making their livelihood.
This land that we cherish so deeply provides us
with what it knows best.
Some of the oldest vines have seen key moments of
the twentieth century: the re-plantings after the
Liberation of France, the terrible freezes of the
1950’s, the ploughings before the departure for the
Algerian war, the animal labour abandonment, and the
surrounding landscape changing into vineyards all
around. But the vines probably still also remember the
maternal care given to them by my family for
generations. I, too, hope the vines remember my arrival
in this world. My
first memories as a child are of playing with my brother
on a blanket at the end of vine rows, followed by my
first days of labour which were easy enough until the
ultimate reward finally came and I was allowed to drive
the tractor in the vineyards.
One day the bell toll of the nearby church
announced a new day that a new generation of our family
was to take over and lay its own blanket at the end of
the vineyard rows…..
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