Letter from a winemaker to his colleagues: “Bring life back”

NAAlice and Olivier de Moor (from Olivier’s family Belgium in 1914) winegrowers at Courgis in the Yonne. Both are oenologists and settled in 1995 (first vintage) on three acres leased in Chablis. Today, their vineyard is divided between Aligoté, Chablis and Bourgogne-Chitry. Very early in organic farming, the de Moors were one of those wine growers who thought about current and future farming practices. Olivier decided to throw a bottle into the sea in the form of an “open” Int...