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Fabrice Monnin After many years running the well-known wine bar, Les Zinszins du Vin in Besançon, Fabrice Monnin and his family moved to the remote village of Padern in the Languedoc-Roussillon to take over Mazière in 2013. Their two hectares of vines are made up of Syrah, Carignan, Grenache, and Macabeu and range in age from 60-100+ years old, with some of the oldest planted in 1902.  Fabrice is the real fucking deal. A geologist from Jura prior to chasing down his dream of making his own wines, Fabrice recognized the similarities between the soil of Jura and the Mazière site. Why is that important? Because according to Fabrice and other masters, like Pierre Overnoy, the capacity for grapes to produce a good ‘voile’ depends mainly on the soil. Why is that important? Because Fabrice’s entire approach to winemaking is all about elevage, the art of aging wine in barrel after fermentation. Fabrice’s cellar is filled with barrels of wine at different stages of development. He tops some ba