Producer Le Temps des Cerises

FRANCE, LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON

Le Temps des Cerises is located in La Tour sur Orb, a small town nestled in the forests of the wild Upper Languedoc Regional Nature Park. The company was founded in 2003 by Axel Prüfer, who in 1998, after a camper holiday decided to abandon the former East Germany, where he had grown up, and move to Languedoc to produce wines. Here he meets important figures in the world of natural wines, such as Yan Rohel, Jean-Francois Nicq and Eric Pfifferling. From them he learns how to make wine and above all he becomes an extremist of non-intervention in the vineyard and in the cellar. It cultivates eight and a half hectares of vineyards, divided into Carignan, Grenache, Cinsault, which are found on granite and quartz soils, surrounded by woods, which serve to create a natural barrier for all that its "neighbors" use of synthetic chemistry in their vineyards. All its wines are made with carbonic maceration, without pressing, without selected yeasts, without repassing, or filtration, or clarification, nor adding sulfur. Qulle that comes out are delicious wines that are absolutely enjoyable.