Introduction

FACTS
Vineyards
Production
Winery Layout
People

VITICULTURE
Climate
Geography
Grapes
Annual Cycle

WINE MAKING
Harvest
White Wines
Red Wines
Yeast
Barrels
Finishing
Other Facts

 

PEOPLE

There are 9 employees at Château Carsin:

  • Juha Berglund (most of the French call him monsieur Berglund) is our part-time forklift driver. Managing director when he has his hands in his pockets...
  • Monsieur Gabillaud is our part-time administrator. He is also the mayor of the neighbouring commune of Cardan.
  • Maite is in charge of our office routines and day-to-day administration.
  • Emmanuelle is our cellar mistress and is in charge of the work in the cellars.
  • Allal is our experienced cellar hand (or a cellar-rat) as well as working at times with the vineyard team.
  • Denis leads our vineyard team. At vintage time he is in charge of the picking team. Most of the year he spends his time on one of his beloved tractors.
  • Pascal, who lives in the building attached to the winery, is our general full-back. He is also the unofficial king of leaf-plucking. Most of the year Pascal takes care of all the bottle stocks and labelling as well as all shipments of wine.
  • Martine and Soline work most of the time in the vineyard cleaning up the mess that the men have made – ie. manual work, Soline also helps Pascal in the “Meterie” where the labelling and packaging is done.