The day when there will be no more wine | Lilian Berillon, Laure Gasparotto

At a time when the press is raving about new, shiny wine cellars costing several million euros, designed by famous architects, the vine is dying. Every year, its life expectancy decreases. In the past, vines were planted for a hundred years, tomorrow it will barely be for twenty-five. The culprit? Climate change, of course, but also humans and farming techniques. If nothing is done, in fifty years, the wine as we know and love it - with its prestigious terroirs, its great vintages, and its hillsides sinking in the autumn of an ancient garnet - will have disappeared. Lilian Berillon was a nurseryman like any other. For a long time, he considered the vine as a commodity: yield and productivity governed his work. Until the day he realized he was at risk of becoming a trader, a "vegetal broker," efficient and short-sighted. Today, the largest estates clamor for his advice and want to buy his plants. His secret? A radical transformation in the conception of the vine. No more soilless plants, derived from cloning and test tubes, Lilian Berillon travels the world in search of shoots that will produce the grapes of tomorrow, tailored to face the passing time and changing climate. It is above all about restoring the vineyard's biological history and returning to reliable farming methods. Because wine is not a matter of chemists or drip irrigation nurseries, but the result of the marriage between man and nature: the blood of the earth. This is the story of a battle to preserve a heritage that dates back several millennia. From the first Gallo-Roman vineyards to the vineyards founded by monks, from Burgundian grape varieties to the great châteaux of Bordeaux and the Napa Valley, it is an entire chapter of our history that would fade away.