Domaine Florent Pastor - A day in Faugères. Part 2
Florent Pastor was the second new winemaker of my day in Faugeres, and the youngest. It ids always so inspiring to meet young winemakers at the beginning of their career, The family vineyards came from Florent’s mother, with 25 hectares in the Faugères cooperative. Florent is the sixth generation of his family to be a wine growers, and in 2021, prompted by his father’s untimely death, he took five hectares of vineyards out of the cooperative, so that he could put his studies to good effect and make his own wine. However, you can sense that he really likes being in the vineyards. Altogether he has 30 different vineyards, grouped in four large plots, between 20 ares to two hectares in size. The oldest vines are some Carignan planted by his great grandfather in 1930, and most of his vineyards were planted in the 1960s and 1970s, by his grandfather. The vineyards are HVE, on which the coop insisted. Florent is not convinced, as he finds it time consuming and costly. We tas
