Les Clos Perdus

Paul Old was a professional dancer with the Australian Ballet for more than 20 years. When his body told him to stop, he did what few former dancers do: he enrolled at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga to study wine science, then flew to the south of France and started over. Les Clos Perdus , the lost vineyards , was founded in 2003 from a garage beneath his apartment in the village of Peyriac-de-Mer, with 1.5 hectares and no playbook.

Paul founded Les Clos Perdus with Hugo Stewart, though Hugo has since stepped away from the project. Today the winery is built around Paul Old and a small team, and in 2018 Faith Wilson , an arts PR professional who met Paul through the dance world , joined as an associate. What began as a single parcel garage project now spans 20 hectares across 32 to 35 distinct parcels. The name remains the key to the whole enterprise: tracking down abandoned old-vine parcels scattered across the Languedoc hillsides and bringing them back into production.

More on how they farm and work in the cellar in our Les Clos Perdus producer profile.

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We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

See here our shipping policy.

Signature on delivery is mandatory for wine deliveries. Please make sure someone is at the shipping address to sign for the package.

If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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