Harvest Season at Clos Fantine

Neil Young famously categorizes all music as belonging either to the aesthetic of the Beatles or to that of the Rolling Stones. Natural wine divides in a similar way. Clos Fantine make Stones wines.

Olivier, Corine, and Carole Andrieu in the old-vine aramon beside their winery.

This September, I interned with my friends at Faugères estate Clos Fantine, sibling vignerons Corine, Carole, and Olivier Andrieu. As elsewhere, it was a late-ripening year. In Faugères it was particularly rainy for the first half of September. Harvest began on September 6th …