Instants de vignes, biodynamics in the Jura | Jérôme Genée

At first, it was the cellars that caught my eye, barrels, large wooden casks, stained glass windows, and bottles... Wood, stone, and glass... Colors and lights... Strong or subtle lights... Then came the discussions... Words and terms... Barbaric? Cow horns, 500 and 500P, silica horns, horsetail tisanes, lunar nodes, biodynamics.

In the end, it's about actions, the actions of people who live off the vine and make it thrive. Men who defend a culture, not a business, who live and support many other men and women.

Biodynamics requires a lot of manual labor, it thinks about the plant but also about future generations. So, I lingered there: a year and a half wandering through the Jura vineyards, listening to men and women happy with what they do and especially capturing their actions, their deeds to help nature show its greatness, to transform a simple little seed into a world-renowned cultural product.

You have to push the door (I was always greeted courteously) to discover the nature of their activities: pruning, burning, tying, dynamizing, plowing, thinning, harvesting, pressing...

I didn't make these visits to Rudolph Steiner but to Stéphane Tissot (Domaine André et Mireille Tissot - Montigny-lès-Arsures), Jean-Étienne and Antoine Pignier (Domaine des Chartreux - Montaigu), Bruno Ciofi (Domaine de La Pinte - Arbois), Jean-François and Jean-Philippe Bourdy (Domaine Bourdy - Arlay). But also to those who cook or taste them.