Vigneron Julien Brocard and his associates at Vents Contre Air oppose the proposed installation of seven new 150-meter-tall (nearly 500 feet) turbines in the village of Prehy, a stone’s throw from Domaine Jean-Marc Brocard.
Tag: ecology
How the Cork Gets from a Tree to Your Bottle
The cork wine stopper is synonymous with preservation – not only of the wine in the bottle but of a way of life for cork farmers and the natural ecosystem of the forest. The process has been the same for generations because the system is a sustainable network benefiting the local economy, the environment, and the industries that utilize cork – particularly the wine industry.
New Roots Along the Canal du Midi
Ventenac-en-Minervois is a small village in the Languedoc, in the Occitanie department of southern France. The local cave is located on the Canal du Midi, a traveler’s dream of a waterway that was once used to transport wine across the country via barges, such as the Marie-Therese, a restored boat docked outside. Replanting an UNESCO Heritage Site The Canal du Midi…
Bird’s Beak Roundup: Seven Days, One List.
This is full-on outside-the-box acceptance that it’s time for a right turn out of history and rhetoric and dogma into what can be a celebration of the meeting of Earth with the human mind, and human hand. It’s ecologically mindful and grounding and authentic.
