Interview with Jean Boucabeille, the owner and winemaker at Domaine Boucabeille in Roussillon. It is a family property in the Roussillon in the south of France. In this video it is the new generation winemaker in the family who talks.
The vineyard comprises some 20 hectares and makes primarily red wine of the appellation Cotes du Roussillon Villages and some sweet Rivesaltes. The winery and vineyard was created from scratch on barren land in the 70s on old fashioned terraces. They grow mainly Grenache noir, carignan, mourvedre and syrah, and a bit macabeu and Grenache blanc. The soil is mainly schist (slate).
Language is English [E]
Entretien avec le vigneron M. Boucabeille, proprietaire du Domaine Boucabeille.
Une propriete dans le vignoble roussillonnais, une region viticole dans le sud de la France connu pour ses vin rouge tres savoureux.
(John Radford, interviewing Jean in the video, is a freelance feature-writer (since 1981) and broadcaster (since 1989) with a special interest in the Mediterranean, particularly Spain, and a background in food and drink going back to 1966. For more on John Radford: see https://www.johnradford.com for latest news and read his blog at https://www.johnradford.com/blog/blogger.html.)
