Carcassonne OenoVideo Festival

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

One of our best customers is La Barbacane, the Michelin-starred restaurant in l’Hotel de la Cité in Carcassonne.  I was delighted to hear that they’ll also be serving one of our wines in Le Jardin de l’Evêque, the outdoor garden area across from the hotel.

And on top of this great news, they commissioned a painted wine barrel for the special waiting area they’re installing where patrons can enjoy an apperitif and some olives before being seated in the garden.

painted barrel o'vineyards

For those of you who don’t know, I like to paint. I’m more into engravings and prints, but I enjoy picking up a brush from time to time.  So it was a pleasure to do some simple castle landscapes on one of my old barrels.

Now, I think the Jardin asked a few other winemakers for barrels.  I’ll let you know once they’ve all been installed so we can see who made the prettiest barrel. 🙂

jardin de l'eveque carcassonne

How to find us

Domaine O’Vineyards, located in the North Arrondissement of Carcassonne, is just minutes from the Carcassonne train station, the Medieval City, and the Carcassonne Airport.
GPS coordinates: 43.259622, 2.340387

O’Vineyards
Wine, Dine, Relax at our Boutique Vineyard
Unique thing to do in Carcassonne
Wine Cellar. Winery Visits. Wine Tasting.
Wine & Food Pairing

North Arrondissement of Carcassonne
885 Avenue de la Montagne Noire
11620 Villemoustaussou, France
Tel: +33(0) 630 189 910

  1. Best by GPS.
    Follow the signs to Mazamet/ Villemoustaussou using the D118. At the end of the last straight part of D118, you will come to a roundabout with the Dyneff gas station.
  2. Take the exit towards Pennautier. Continue 500m to a small roundabout and go straight over.
  3. Look out for the second road on your right, Avenue des Cévennes which curves up hill (about 1km) to Avenue de la Montagne Noire on the left.
  4. At the last juction, bear left. the road sign “Ave de la Montagne Noire” (confusing as it seems to show a right turn)
  5. After another 500m you will see our red brick color building in the middle of the vines.
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