Simon Busser Hangs Up the Plow

An interview with the seminal Cahors vigneron and former horse-plowing enthusiast, who lost much of his 2024 vintage to April frost.

Despite his relative youth, Prayssac vigneron Simon Busser might be considered the keystone of the radical natural wine community in Cahors, having helped mentor his neo-vigneron neighbors at L’Ostal Levant in their early vintages. His own estate began in 2007 with the acquisition of his grandfather’s vineyards, planted to malbec, merlot, and tannat; si…