Co-operative Clairette and Carignan

Our village in the Languedoc is surrounded by vines, typically grown by smallholders who are mostly concerned to deliver as many grapes as possible to the local co-op. Although several of the smaller co-ops have amalgamated, practically every village within striking distance has a wine co-op and most of them look pretty unchanged since they were built, many of them in the 1930s. They process the...