Like many great winemakers, the art of winemaking seemingly found Alex rather than the other way round. An art technician from Limousin, he met a woman whom he fell in love with and decided to follow her to the idyllic Pyrénées-Orientales, inland from Perpignan. Art tech work was unsurprisingly thin on the ground in the wild and sparsely populated Roussillon but Alex met a handful of winemakers in the local area and it seemed like an interesting path to him so in 2014 he decided to do a vintage under the tutelage of Loïc Roure of Domaine du Possible. After months of back breaking work and hanging out with natural winemakers he thought ‘these guys are nuts’ and left. But it was too late. After a couple months he felt the pull back to it and realised he was hooked. In 2015 he made his first vintage with grapes from a friend and in 2016 he bought his first plot, from which he now makes Choulour - the first wine made from his own grapes.
Alex is a careful and considered winemaker whose personality and sensibility shine through in his wines. He is interested solely in the indigenous varieties of his adopted home the Roussillon. He works with Carignan, Aramon Gris as well as Grenache Noir, Blanc and Gris. His wines always boldly express the soil and climate of their origins whilst maintaining a delicate and almost technical elegance. His plots are all traditional bush vines and he believes strongly in respecting the equilibrium of nature and biodiversity. In cellar he does not filter his wines, fine them or add any sulphur.
