In this season, the VDMA you to rediscover the winemakers who have made the happiness of the blog since its inception. In honor where honor, because he was one of the initiators of this adventure of "friends" are back the portrait of Jean-Baptiste Senate and his wife Charlotte, revolutionary Minervois .
Senate or bang permanent.
Debater formidable occasionally sharp, Jean-Baptiste has never hidden his beliefs:
He painted the door of the cellar. 
In red, as it should. Brought down the stone railings, too unstable for his taste. In the courtyard, the old press, too, took a facelift. Soon it is in the old concrete tanks Domain, converted into offices, Charlotte, his wife will welcome visitors
In red, as it should. Brought down the stone railings, too unstable for his taste. In the courtyard, the old press, too, took a facelift. Soon it is in the old concrete tanks Domain, converted into offices, Charlotte, his wife will welcome visitors "We need it, it must be beautiful, if you want people to want to come we see, "said Jean-Baptiste Senat, shirt and pants off of hands forever stained tannins.The "individuals" ... So the new Public Domain Senate, now in fifteen years a key figure of the new local Languedoc. That year, he the darling of the wine shops and trendy restaurants natures is to "individuals" it turns cool. These strangers who only know the Nine , of Crossbow or Ornicar that labels design (signed Gianfranco Pontillo) crisp and mouth.
symbol of this new era in
the entrance to the court at the end of the Rue de la Forge, the Senate just a young cypress replanting to play to that amount, haughty, cons the right column.
"In the region, the cypress is a welcome sign, proudly proclaims Jean-Baptiste
And next open house and glass house is quite a shift for someone who has with malice in the trade reputation of evil bears licked. Provocateur, provided creator Jean-Baptiste is the rebel of the Minervois. Parisian roots Languedoc, a former political science student, converted in wine on a whim one day of 96, he has ceased to shake the habits of the Minervois ... At the risk of getting some strong enemies.
Review Paris Eating summed up his position one day in a photo posted today 
above the office his wife, Charlotte: a bottle of Ornicar transformed in Molotov cocktail. "To de-fragment of pleasure" said the text ( Ed Tatami ). Not bad for a guy born in 68 on the side of the Boulevard Saint Germain ...
above the office his wife, Charlotte: a bottle of Ornicar transformed in Molotov cocktail. "To de-fragment of pleasure" said the text ( Ed Tatami ). Not bad for a guy born in 68 on the side of the Boulevard Saint Germain ... "I came here to find me, he says, both feet planted in the soil of his vineyards. I just was not programmed for that. My brother is a judge, my sister is doctor, I think my father dreamed for me a great school curriculum ... In the family, Sciences Po, was the minimum service. But I do not feel 25 ... years, I felt that my life was over. Here, there was land, vineyards, grapes. With Charlotte you left everything behind to settle there. She gave me this strength and here, finally, I found myself. In the work. Healthy fatigue of a hard day. Aches ... I like it. I immediately liked it. "is when in his vines, that man is the happiest. When his travels or watches his old vines vinified at the winery. Armed with a pick that day, Jean-Baptiste's work refined the tractor.
"In fact, " mind-blowing, " he says with relish. It décavaillonne , as they say here. It breaks the caoucel , the small mound of earth that protects the vines. It is an old technique of mechanical weeding ... At the same time, we just break small roots that surface, to force the vine to dive deep into the earth and enjoy the land. In June, we will "cap" all that, replace the soil in the trench , finally smother the weeds. "There is jubilation in this way to draw a path, patiently, where time had come to clear the ruts.
A Trausse, now he raises his vines and his three children with equal pleasure.
But that happiness has not mellowed. And good for those who like their wines.
Debater formidable occasionally sharp, Jean-Baptiste has never hidden his beliefs: "I believe in local wines, fairer, more accurate, explains he said. More digestible also because less tannic. Nearer the fruit. I'm tired of these "classic Languedoc" need to wait ten, fifteen years ... On arrival they are there, no doubt. But they do not m'épatent. "A bit sectarian?
"I do not think so, replied the farmer. I do not condemn an approach by principle. A month ago, for example, I visited Tariquet . It is industrial, not organic but it is consistent. It is not my thing, but I respect. "
Jean-Baptiste, decidedly, is a complex man. Uncompromising and curious, he loves the headwinds and feeds readily paradoxical influences. As his vineyard, It identifies what it needs and ignore the rest. But c '
is also an insatiable explorer who likes nothing better than finding the young talent of tomorrow.
Charlotte (right), his wife, is no exception. Young farmer now graduated, cook and organizer peerless genius, one who puts to music every year 
tastings of the famous "wine with my friends". Here are found the teachers to whom the couple devotes boundless admiration for Arena Foillard,
tastings of the famous "wine with my friends". Here are found the teachers to whom the couple devotes boundless admiration for Arena Foillard, of Gautherot to Valletta, through these new kids they like to do the short scale.
For this as for the rest, Jean-Baptiste has a real talent. An explosive talent ... Rough and generous as the Languedoc as it aspires to be like. That is why the
hen winemaker like that opens, you have to rush. Before the animal could change his mind ... Or address. With it, you're never quite safe from a revolution.
Jean-Baptiste and Charlotte Senat, 12 Rue de l'Argent Double, 11160 Trausse. 04.68.78.38.17.
On the Net: blog domain Senate .
