Le Temps des Cerises - Axel Prüfer

Axel Prüfer moved from East Germany to France and began his journey in winemaking. He worked for and learned from other natural winemakers and in 2003 he founded his own domaine, Les Temps des Cerises. His vineyard is in Languedoc, nestled in l’Hérault surrounded by forests. Chardonnay, Cinsault, Grenache, Carignan... his wines are enormously complex in spite of most of them having comparatively low-alcohol content. To protect his grapes and vines from wild boar, he collects hair from the local hair salon and spreads it around the boundary of his vineyards; the smell of humans keeps the boars at bay. The name “Temps des Cerises” comes from a song that -- by way of an association with the Paris Commune in the mid 1800s -- became a revolutionary song. The "Time of Cherries" is a metaphor regarding what life would be like when the revolutionfinally changed social and economic conditions.” All his cuvées tell a story and express so much of his uncompromising temperament.