Producer

Léon Barral

Faugères · Languedoc · France
The farm before the wine.

Didier Barral runs Domaine Léon Barral in Lenthéric, a model of polyculture in Faugères — vines, cows, horses, pigs all farmed together without a single synthetic product.

His cuvées Jadis, Valinière and Faugères are deep, slow wines from old-vine Carignan, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre on schist.