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The field of diversity accumulates accents. The tractor is banned from vines since the start of this adventure. The land, on small terraces facing north, reports sometimes immense fossilized oysters, witnesses of a time long ago when a warm sea, tropical, underwater location. Next to the basement, a wood stove purrs and cooked bread made ​​with cereals in the field. Cecile and Bernard perform all steps of biodynamics with a sacred reputation outside our borders. It is well known, no one is prophet in his own country!

At the beginning of the adventure, with their few acres of vines, as it settled on this small hill near Caux, they were only the grape juice . Immediately, the originality was to make sense against the practices of modern culture, not trying to force the vine using the full panoply of the perfect little chemist. On the contrary, they are the ones that have adapted to grape varieties and climatic hazards.
In a field near the vault, two horses, without steam or gasoline engine, accompanied by tillage. It's not a fantasy but a real understanding of his farming. As Bernard: "with a draft animal , there's a respect for the soil, flexibility of the earth. All your senses are awakened, you breathe the smell of the earth, you feel in the structure, tripping over them! "

Observer newspaper, and attentive to his environment activist natural , he practices an organic farming -dynamic that takes care of the earth by removing any use of pesticides , chemical fertilizers and other devices. Therefore, we must constantly listen to the vineyard and wine that everyone at their own pace, breathe, live together with their environment, evolving according to the cycles that affect the earth. We can certainly take them for wacky to see them concoct preparations horn powder, nettle, dandelion or even valerian. But the intelligence, strength of man, is it not precisely this ability to adapt to its environment. There's a fine example, quite the opposite of intensive cultivation where the operator, big or small, depending only reasons productivism, performance and profitability.
For a year, in addition to making great wines, and Cécile Bernard created the Mill Fontedicto and, always the same approach, make bread! They produce their own corn, tender, hardy variety of regional, very well adapted to the climate and soil. Let us not seek another variety or change their genes so that's ultimately force the middle, by force, to adapt to the plant!
Of course they built their own wood oven, retype the old machines of the last century to sort the grain, once the harvest is in mid-July, and now market themselves flour and breads (plain, sesame , sunflower, flax ...).

The Languedoc hides behind a priori persistent, several wines known. Come see behind things, behind the scenes, you will gain in pleasure and surprise. Being curious, this is the beginning of happiness.