Contrasts is a hundred or so natural growers making wines with extremely limited doses of SO2, in line with the standards of the ‘Vin Méthode Nature’ label : 30 mg/l total SO2 for reds and 40 for whites MAX. Et basta!

There are not many places in France where winemaking is so demanding. The great Basque terroirs will be present at Contrastes!”

Sometimes, one of the best forms of climate insurance is to have a small plot of vines which do not rise in alcohol and produce very fine, light wines.

In the Southwest, we are lucky to have old cranks who open the way for lots of extravagances, and it’s often here that you find new paths of exploration.

In the Southwest, we know how to make godly wines, immortals, princes in short trousers at 20 years of age.

Harvesting by hand brings a human touch to our wines. It means opening our estates to people we’d probably never meet…

The image attached to us is sometimes hard to shake off, but winemakers from other regions adore us!

The Contrastes Wine Fair 2025 is back…save the date! 9/10 November in Toulouse. Hope to see you there!

“The Southwest is the greatest undiscovered wine region of France: a cluster of often remote appellations, many so small that it’s hard for them to make a wave in the market. They export a bit here, they export a bit there, they sell to the locals – and then all the wine is gone, before the world at large has had a chance to wake up and take notice” Andrew Jefford, Wine Scholar Guild, February 2024