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Domaine Bardi d’Alquier - first visit in a day in Faugères.

Thibaud Bardi had a brilliant idea.  Let’s start the visit with coffee in the vineyards.  He brought cake too.  How good was that!   It was late February and spring was definitely in the air.   You could see the village of Laurens and in the distance the Pyrenées. There is a capitelle nearby.   And Thibaut talked about how he became a wine grower.  He comes from Périgord and was working for the Crédit Agricole, with his last post in Montpellier.   They liked the south of France, and his wife, Sophie, said firmly that she did not want to move again.  And it was time for a change, so they looked for a vineyard, all over Provence and the Languedoc.    And serendipity brought them to Faugères in 2017.  Jean-Michel Alquier was looking to sell, as his children were not interested in taking over the family vineyards, but he hoped to maintain the continuity.  And for Thibaut, at the age of 50, it was now or never.  He wanted to take on something that was already established, so he and Jean-Mi

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