The old-timers discovered that large quantities of water on the surface of the soil, given its thermal wheel effect, considerably reduces the damage caused by frost. This is why, at the beginning of spring each year, our vines become aquatic plants for forty days!

Viticulture To eliminate the excess salinity that rises up from the subsoil and destroys the vegetation, we flood the vineyards for several weeks every year… they then become a kingdom of frogs and numerous water-birds. At the end of the 19th C, when the French vineyards were wiped out by phylloxera, those in the lagoon continued to flourish as the phylloxera did not survive these annual forced baths. Since then we have continued to plant our vines ungrafted; unlike most they are not grafted on American stock. However, their situation at the foot of the surrounding hills, means they are susceptible to spring frosts.