The Rediscovered Wine, Winemaker Chronicles | Jean-Claude Ray

The wine industry is experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis to which institutions are responding with measures that only worsen it.

To overcome this, shouldn't we start by teaching our future winemakers a different viticulture, one where the terroir is not banned, but rather highlighted as a real asset?

Today, men and women from our vineyards advocate this simple and obvious idea: emphasizing authenticity, the typical characteristics of terroirs. These goals can only be achieved by restoring a healthy organic life to soils often devastated by chemicals, through meticulous and environmentally respectful work.

This book chronicles about sixty interviews with these meticulous professionals, whose techniques are sometimes not recognized by modern and well-intentioned agronomy, but whose nectars provide us with more than just pleasure: emotion!

This new edition delves deeper into the investigation with those who refuse to deny their terroir, who respect their environment beyond passing trends, and who cultivate their soils without polluting or destroying them. They thus combine the economic, ecological, and social criteria of genuine sustainable development.