In the Languedoc-Roussillon we live without compromise. Few regions harbour as much dynamism and creativity as this one. For around thirty years, new winegrowers have been coming to cultivate the vine on these stony soils, on unforgiving, sundrenched, windswept terroirs. Here, they silently write their own narrative; modern day tales of pruning hundred-year-old Carignan and pressing Grenache that have ripened under the Mediterranean sun.<\/p>\n
\u201cBe like Goethe – seek the Orient at your feet. The Orient of France is the Midi\u201d said the Languedoc poet and writer Joseph Delteil, with true southern grandiloquence.
\nIn his book \u201cPaleolithic Cuisine\u201d he immortalizes 14 recipes, including \u201cLucie\u2019s tomatoes\u201d: \u201cOh ripe tomatoes, you are the joy of the world and the sensual delight of the intestines\u201d, plus black pudding, chicken with saffron rice, delicious milk cap mushrooms, his father\u2019s personal recipe for Millas (a kind of maize cake), and other curiosities.
\nWe winemakers of today understand Delteil and this natural approach to what we eat and drink, this primal cuisine that exists just as primal art exists. \u201cPaleolithic cuisine is God\u2019s cuisine\u201d. Tuned in to the senses, poet and winemaker alike create by instinct, from within themselves, from memory, like early man, to reveal the essence of the fruits of the earth.<\/p>\n