Description

Sylvain Respaut first settled in the Agly valley in 2007 as a beekeeper. The meeting with the local winegrowers, Loïc Roure in particular, and the discovery of their natural wines is a trigger: “ That’s what I want to do! “, we hear him say. Sylvain took over a few hectares of old vines on the hillside which he converted to organic farming. After a few years of apprenticeship, he teamed up one fine morning with Olivier Cros, the son of a winegrower dreaming of another way of working the vines and making wine. The two beekeeper-winegrower friends are reinventing the profession baptized by one of their children “apiqueron” – The Beekeeping Cellar was born!! They practice organic cultivation of their vines, located between Montner and Calce. The soil, the environment, but also the women, the earthworms and the men who work there, are respected: no weedkillers, no pesticides, no fertilizers or other synthetic products. We favor compost, the addition of organic plant matter. The harvest is done manually and the vinification uses natural processes with a minimum of intervention and possible inputs: the fermentation of the juice is done thanks to the indigenous yeasts and bacteria present naturally on the skin of the grapes and in the environment. from the cellar. No addition of oenological pharmacopoeias, no fining, no filtration and little or no added sulphites .