Vida Locale

Catherine was born in Nantes in 1963 and was a journalist at La Tribune and Libération for 20 years. In 2004, with a diploma in viticulture and oenology in hand, she moved to the Languedoc to become a winemaker. While growing vines and making wine, she continued to write. In 2011, she published Dans les Vignes with Editions du Rouergue, followed by Recettes de Ma Vigne in 2013 and Une Place sur Terre in 2018. In 2019, she published Ma Part des Anges in 2019 and in 2024 Lambrusque with Les Ateliers d'Argol

With her son Nicolas, she crafts fine, balanced, rhythmical reflections of an ancient terroir near Sommières: pure expressions of a place between the wild and the cultivated that she calls La Carbonnelle. After losing a good part of her grapes two years on the run due to extreme heat and drought, she decided to uproot an entire plot of vines and create an experimental wine garden or “vineyard orchard”. Here, she has planted vines next to saplings and local aromatic plants to “re-weave the links, tendril by tendril”.