Living for laughter

What an ambience… Daniel and Frédéric Coulon look like the world’s happiest growers. To tell the truth, it’s hard to imagine them in a bad mood, such is the warmth of their welcome and the resounding good cheer in their voices. In fact, everything about them is upbeat. And when they declare in unison that they want to “convey fruitiness, minerality and freshness in their wines”, you say to yourself that that’s exactly what you see in them: an appetite that bathes their lives, an uprightness that shapes them, and a friendliness that gives them zest. You also say to yourself that this, without a doubt, is the Coulon “family spirit”. Fostered by parents who gently passed on the taste for wine and thus the desire to continue the work accomplished on the estate. Fostered by the past that is now inspiring their father to write his memoirs under the affectionate gaze of his children, who have asked him to “especially tell the little stories of everyday life”, the ones that have lit their lives so brightly. Fostered by the entrepreneurial spirit that has driven the family for generations: the grandfather built the network of customers all over France, the father calculated exactly what he could sell and therefore how much he could investing in upgrading the estate; the sons have always thought “there was still something to be achieved” (going organic in all their vineyards, among other things). Fostered, lastly, by their empathy with the estate staff, where each employee tends the same vines all year round, as if they were his own. And the two brothers are filled with joy when one of them says: “Look how beautiful my vine is!”. The Coulons’ wines are surely a jolly lot!