Emile Grados

Soazick and Florent Grados have embraced the winegrowing profession with humility and perseverance, returning to their family origins imbued with good farming sense, love and observation in order to adapt their winegrowing practices. Brother and sister, often opposites in character, complement each other harmoniously for the benefit of their Rubélite and Pétalite cuvées, which are firmly rooted in the Riceys terroir.

Our great-grandfather Émile would have been happy to contemplate these remote parts of Les Riceys from his plots in Tronchois and Val du Clos. André, our grandfather, encouraged by his wife Christiane, who looked after the farm, had to give up his job as a lumberjack, which he loved so much, to turn to the vineyards. Our grandparents planted almost everything, enduring difficult years punctuated by frosts and droughts. Our father passed it on to us, a little earlier than expected.

My sister and I weren't prepared to take over the family business so quickly.

Perhaps that's why we had a fresher eye when we started out, no preconceived ideas, no habits, just observation: nature seemed to be telling us what to do... So we began to manage the vineyard differently and 2019 saw our first organic harvest.