Vitiblog

Source : Domaine de Lagrézette

By Alain Dominique Perrin

I’m often asked, even today, whether my passion for wine and viticulture is influenced by my taste for Art. I do not honestly think so.

I love art, that is obvious: I always need art all around me. When I find myself surrounded by walls without art, I’m bored to death and ill at ease. Working inside the house of Cartier taught me extreme refinement, excellence, the search for perfection. So, when I’m making wine, I want to make a fine wine, not a supermarket wine. But the approach is different. Wine is not, and must never become, an exclusive, luxury item. When I talk about our wine, I am first talking about the passion that we put into making it. There is love in working and cultivating the vines, in finding the best assemblages and in waiting to share the fruit of our labor. But if I had to find a link with art and if I had to compare my wine to a work of art, I would choose one of César’s compression works, for its strength, force and density.

Our wines are masculine. They have body and a strong personality, just like the works of Cesar. He was like a brother, my best friend, and wine is inseparable from friendship.

Speaking of Cesar, this note gives me the chance to announce that an exhibition revolving around his work will be held in the near future at the Fondation Cartier… Dear friends and readers of this blog, don’t miss this retrospective, which I await impatiently. All the more so as it is being staged by the great architect, Jean Nouvel.