Les Temps des Cerises

Axel Prufer grew up in East Germany and got out as soon as he could. A camping holiday in the Languedoc sealed the decision: he settled just north of Beziers in 2003, found a farmhouse in the hamlet of Le Mas Blanc, and began piecing together what would become Le Temps des Cerises. The name, meaning The Time of the Cherries, carries a double meaning in French: it is both a love song and a revolutionary anthem from the Paris Commune. Prufer likes the ambiguity.

Prufer farms approximately 15 hectares, assembled over two decades, scattered across the hills above Beziers at various altitudes and expositions. The sites are remote, often surrounded by forest, and built on granitic quartz soils that give his wines their distinctive mineral clarity and low natural alcohol. A 2022 expansion added seven hectares in organic conversion. The vineyards hold Cinsault, Carignan, Grenache, Alicante Bouschet, Chardonnay, Clairette, and Viognier, among others. Yields are tiny, sometimes as low as ten hectoliters per hectare.

More on how they farm and work in the cellar in our Les Temps des Cerises producer profile.

Le Temps des Cerises La Peur du Rouge 2023

Les Temps des Cerises

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