Catching Sunset with Hors Saison

Upstart, part-time Languedoc winemaking projects aren't easy. Olga Ivanova & Antoine Monod, the multitalented Russo-French couple working as Hors Saison, somehow make it look chic.

Early this summer, at a soft opening of my friends’ new Saint Vrain restaurant-auberge Le Doyenné, I met Olga Ivanova-Monod, a former cosmetics and fashion executive then working for the restaurant as a sommelière and tisane specialist. She was shortly to return to join her husband Antoine and their children for harvest north of Bédarieux - just a short…