"AGRICULTURE IS THE BASIS OF CULTURE" by MAURICE BEJART 

I put this sentence of Maurice Béjart in the spotlight because I am deeply convinced that agriculture is one of the most important topics that we now have to worry about. Of course, cities and commerce have been, and will remain for a long time, essential factors in the development of civilization, but the problems facing humanity today, the qualitative leap of "conscience" that we must engage to keep the Earth able to support us goes through a radical "update" of our relationship to the environment. And in this respect the autonomous peasants are essential actors (to whom we should more often give the word rather than the so-called experts of the world of tomorrow.The fascination that today's wine world exerts on many people results from the need to be connected to something essential, something that links the Earth to which we walk and the Cosmos from which life has come. And the vine (like all plants) puts us every day before the spectacle of this osmosis. In addition, the elaboration of the wine also requires us to be a little "alchemist" because the process of grape fermentation despite all the knowledge developed on the elaboration of the nectar still contains many secrets (open) in the vats.

In producing a wine that is frank and personalized (ie that could not be produced elsewhere), it remains possible to argue that the current globalization can also remain a carrier of culture, singularity and humanity. as a producer, wine is a product that requires a lot of self-improvement to capture the energy of a place in order to restore it to tastes and aromas. That's what we try to do at Puy Arnaud. Welcome to this site that I tried to make attractive and, I hope, interesting to browse.

Thierry Valette