La Graine Sauvage - Sybil Baldassare

Sybil is one of the most energetic winemakers that we know. She has a diploma as oenologue and has worked as a winemaking consultant in conventional and organic wineries. Sybil could not keep on working with a foot in each wine camp, so she started looking for a vineyard for herself, and she found one in 2015. For Sybil, a wine has to come from 100% grape juice and any manipulation of the wine is a violation of its true potential. After 15 years of working as a consultant and advising others how to make wine she decided it was her turn to make her own wine. She works in the region of Faugeres on a single plot of vines on pure schist soil. Grape varieties are Grenache Blanc, Vermentino, Roussanne and Marsanne. The potential for her vineyard is huge. Once she had found her own plot, she was ready to apply her energy and knowledge she had amassed over years to everything from farming techniques to fermentation. In 2020, she began working in a better cellar, built together with Alex Durand, winemaker at Péira Levada.