Harvest 2014 is coming to an end. We are very fortunate not to have been hit by any of the hail or severe thunderstorms that occurred during this growing season. Looks like another promising year!

Starting the days at 4:00 to get our grapes in at cooler temperatures.

Hard work! but of course the fun continued with our guests!

Delicious Food & fine Wine continued to be served during the long harvest weeks!

Don’t worry we had an extra help force…. 

• Ryan flew back from Napa for a short week …. and long days!
• George Gracia, Maitre Sommelier, came to help entertain our evening visitors!

 

O’Vineyards main activity is making and selling wine. In a region where wine can be found in abundance, we are fortunate to be able to attract a high number of adventurous epicurean world travelers because of the good wine we serve generously to accommodate the fine food we provide.

Nothing is irrelevant to a wine enthusiast who likes to tour a winery/vineyard: the vines, the pruning, the harvesting, the winemaking process. We show our equipment and explain each step.
A thorough tour requires time and energy, and our international visitors evidently appreciate our efforts. And we thank them all. Cheers!

 

Tourism and Cinema in the heart of Aude

The Oenovideo film festival chose the Medieval  Cite of Carcassonne and the Hotel de la Cite to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

The OenoVideo Festival was hosted by the Syndicat du Cru Minervois in the heart of it’s vineyards and in the walls of Carcassonne from 30 May to 2 June 2013. Oenovidéo found one of the best possible places to stage its international scope. For twenty years, Oenovidéo international showed that it is possible to unite the seventh art and wine.

It was four long days for the Grand Jury but the Minervois region treated the Jurors to many excursions hi-lighting the beauty of the Carcassonne area.

The Festival started by a meet and greet luncheon for the members of the jury at the restaurant Saskia. and that was only the beginning!
The gala was held at La Barbacane, the Hotel de la Cité Michelin starred restaurant located in the Midieval Cite of Carcassonne.

Œnovideo 2013 Grand Jury

Grand Jury Président
Christophe Barratier. Director – Writer – French Producer

Grand Jury Members
Fabrizio Bucella. Doctor of Science University of Brussels. Sommelier – Columnist

Corinne Destombes. Executive Producer – Studios Folimage

Pascal Frissant. Winemaker – Château Coupe-Roses

Daniel Hernandez. CNRS physicist. writer

Patrick Masbatin. Master Sommelier – film Buff

Bernard Nauer. Fiction and documentary filmmaker

Joe O’Connell. Vineyard owner-winemaker. Historian, University of Massachusetts. Domain O’Vineyards, Carcassonne

Marc Olivier. Journalist – Journalist – Honorary Director ANEV

2013 Awards

awards from the Festival Grand Jury chaired by Christophe Barratier

• Grand Jury Special prize to the full length film   :
    Pelican's watch. Greece. Lea Binzer production.

• Best full length Film is awarded to two films:
    Red Obsession Australia. David Roach et Warwick production
  À la poursuite de Mme Li France. Anne-Marie Avouac production.

•  Best short film is awarded to :
    Vendanges d'hiver France.  Guilhem Connac production.

• Price for best picture goes to feature film :
    Boom Varietal - The rise of Argentine Malbec USA. Sky Pinnick production

• Award for best screenplay and staging is presented in short film:
    Le vin, culture universelle Spain. Jorge Mazo production

• Best Picture “Promotion” is given to the short film:
    Do Rias Baixas - A year of wine. Spain. Ramses Rivera production

• Best film for professionals in feature film :
    La vente en primeur des vins grands crus classés bordelais. France. Production Hervé Remaud, Mylène Jaillette, Christophe Villain.

Special Mention

• Special Mention of the Grand Jury for the feature film :
    Like the old vine. Croatia.  Milka Barisic procduction

Audience Award

•   A year in Burgundy. USA. David Kennard production.
•   Lafleur. Germany.  Mathieu Charrière production.

Partners awards

• Landscape and Environment Prize awarded by Bayer CropScience :
    Do Rias Baixas - A year of wine Spain. Ramses Rivera production

• Imaginarium Prize awarded by  Imaginarium  :
    Le vin, culture universelle Spain.  Jorge Mazo production

• Best work of general interest Prize awarded by ANEV :
     UJVR, Union des jeunes viticulteurs récoltants France Florent et rémy Gaillard production

• Revue des Œnologues Prize awarded by la Revue des Œnologues :
    Zucco, le vin du fils du Roi des Français Italy.  Lidia Rizzo production

• Wine – Health – Pleasure of Life Prize awarded from VSPV :
    No wine left behind USA.  Kevin Gordon production