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The Day When There Will Be No More Wine (french edition) by Laure Gasparotto and Lilian Bérillon explores the uncertain future of wine in the face of climate change and modern cultivation techniques. Renowned nurseryman Lilian Bérillon proposes innovative solutions to save vineyards and preserve millennia-old viticultural heritage. A captivating and essential work for all lovers of terroirs and grand crus.
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At a time when the press is raving about new flashy cellars worth millions of euros, designed by famous architects, the vine is dying. Each year, its lifespan decreases. Once planted for a hundred years, tomorrow it will barely be twenty-five. The culprit? Climate change, of course, but also human practices and cultivation techniques. If nothing is done, in fifty years, the wine as we know and love it - with its prestigious terroirs, grand crus, and hillsides shaded in autumn with an ancient garnet - will have disappeared…
Lilian Berillon was an ordinary nurseryman. For a long time, he viewed the vine as a commodity: yield and productivity governed his work. Until the day he realized he risked becoming a trader, a "vegetal broker", efficient and short-sighted…
Today, the greatest estates seek his advice and want to buy his plants. His secret? A radical transformation in the conception of the vine. No more off-ground plants, cloned and from test tubes; Lilian Berillon travels the world, searching for the shoots that will produce the grapes of tomorrow, designed to withstand the passage of time and changing climate. The goal is above all to restore the vineyard’s biological history and return to reliable cultivation methods. Because wine is not a matter for chemists or drip-feed nurseries, but the fruit of the marriage between man and nature: the blood of the earth.
This is the story of a fight to save a heritage thousands of years old. From the first Gallo-Roman vineyards to the enclosures founded by monks, from Burgundy grape varieties to the grand chateaux of Bordeaux and Napa Valley, an entire chapter of our history would be erased…
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