Author: Clémence Fabre

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Harvest 2026 Begins: Early Picking, Beautiful Balance and a New Idea Takes Shape

Harvest season has started unusually early this year at Famille Fabre, with our first Chardonnay grapes picked on August 7th, followed just a few days later by the Merlot destined for our rosé wines on August 11th.

After three consecutive vintages marked by severe drought and significant water stress, 2026 is bringing a welcome change. Thanks to more favorable growing conditions and better water availability, our vines have faced the summer with greater resilience and balance. While the harvest dates are among the earliest we’ve seen, the vines have maintained excellent health and fruit quality throughout the season.

Walking through the vineyards, we are delighted to find beautifully balanced grapes, showing both freshness and concentration. The berries have ripened evenly, offering promising levels of acidity, fruit expression and aromatic intensity.

The excitement continues in the cellar. As the first grapes arrived and the juices began to flow, we were immediately struck by their quality. Bright, fresh and bursting with fruit, these early juices are already a pleasure to taste. Their purity and aromatic richness are remarkable, capturing the essence of the vintage from the very first pressings.

In fact, the juices are tasting so good that they have inspired a new idea among the family: why not produce our own grape juice this year?

We usually focus on transforming these wonderful grapes into wines, but some of the first juices are so delicious that they deserve to be enjoyed just as they are. Naturally sweet, refreshing and full of character, they offer a different way to experience the fruit of our vineyards.

Of course, the harvest is only just beginning, and many more varieties are still to come. The coming weeks will reveal the full personality of the 2026 vintage. But these first days have already filled us with optimism.

Early harvest dates, healthier vines, less water stress and exceptionally promising juices: the 2026 vintage is off to a wonderful start at Famille Fabre.

Stay tuned as we follow the harvest through the weeks ahead! 🍇✨🍷

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✨ Two Cocktails to Celebrate Summer at Château de Luc

Summer at Château de Luc begins with two bright creations from Famille Fabre: Le Grand Rendez‑Vous and Le Fabritz. Two cocktails, two moods, one shared burst of sunshine.

🎨 The recipes come to life through the delicate illustrations of Caroline Laguerre, who brings a joyful guinguette spirit to these fresh, summery creations.

🌼 Le Grand Rendez‑Vous

A zesty, alcohol‑free mocktail with vibrant citrus notes. Easy to make at home and perfect for light, refreshing aperitifs. Ingredients: Le Rendez Vous + Hysope

🌾 Le Fabritz

A bold cocktail crafted with our friends at Maison Alaryk and Hysiope. A unique blend of craft beer and aromatic botanicals that surprises and delights. Ingredients: Le Rendez Vous + Hysope + Orange Liqueur.

🍹 Try Them at Home

Both recipes were designed to be simple and accessible, so anyone can become a bartender for an evening. Discover the illustrated recipes on our blog and let summer pour into your glass.

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2026 Spring & Summer at Château de Luc: A Season of Unmissable Events

Nestled in the heart of the Corbières, Château de Luc comes alive from April onwards with a vibrant program of events. From convivial gatherings and tastings to festive evenings and professional encounters, discover everything we have in store for the sunny season.

🌸 APRIL: A Gentle Start to the Season

The return of warm days marks the beginning of our event calendar.

📅 April 10 – Opening Apéritif
Join us at the Comptoir de la Place for a relaxed and festive moment featuring cocktails and mocktails. The perfect way to kick off the season together.

📅 April 25 – Aude Express (Wine Casino Experience)
A fun and immersive event to discover our wines differently. Expect games, tastings, and surprises that will challenge your senses!

🌿 MAY: Terroir, Encounters & Shared Moments

May celebrates the art of living the winemaker’s life.

📅 May 9 – Behind-the-Scenes Visit & Co-Winemaker Experience
Step into the daily life of a winemaker and explore our know-how from the inside.

📅 May 16 – Biocoop Group Visit
A privileged moment of exchange around organic values and our commitment.

📅 May 23 – Independent Winemakers’ Picnic
A must-attend gathering to enjoy a gourmet moment in the vineyards.

📅 May 24 – Cruscadelles Festival
A convivial local event celebrating regional traditions.

📅 May 30 – La Vigneronne in Gasparets
An inspiring event dedicated to women in wine, driven by passion and sharing.

☀️ JUNE: The First Summer Evenings

Longer days bring a more festive rhythm to the vineyard.

📅 June 4 – Les Fabrettes
A signature event, full of authenticity and conviviality.

📅 June 19 – IGP Pays d’Oc Summer Evening (Palavas)
A festive seaside evening to enjoy our wines in a different setting.

📅 June 26 – Launch of “Summer in Corbières” (Château de Boutenac)
The official kickoff of the season’s summer festivities.

📅 June 27 – Choir Evening in the Castle Courtyard
A magical musical night in a historic setting, led by Myriam.

🌞 JULY: The Heart of Summer

July is filled with major highlights and unforgettable evenings.

📅 July 2 – Les Fabrettes
Always warm, lively, and welcoming.

📅 July 9 – IGP Pays d’Oc Summer Evening (Saporta)
Another opportunity to share our wines in a vibrant atmosphere.

📅 July 15 – Les Tonneaux de la Cité (Carcassonne)
A daytime tasting event in an iconic location.

📅 July 23 – Summer in Corbières (Domaine La Rune)
A travelling event celebrating the region.

📅 July 23 – Winemaker Thursdays (Homps)
A convivial gathering by the Canal du Midi.

📅 July 27 – Corbières en Fête
A must-attend celebration of local spirit and conviviality.

📅 July 28 – Opera at the Château
An exceptional evening blending lyrical music and heritage.

📅 July 31 – Morning Tasting at the Cellar Door
A relaxed tasting session to start the day beautifully.

🌻 AUGUST: A Flavorful End to Summer

The season continues in a warm and festive spirit.

📅 August 6 – Les Fabrettes
Still the perfect occasion to share joyful moments.

📅 August 20 – Winemaker Thursdays (Minervois)
A great opportunity to explore neighbouring terroirs.

📅 August 21 – Wine Tasting at Figurotta Campsite
A relaxed and friendly tasting experience with holidaymakers.

🍷 Experience Corbières Differently

Through this rich and diverse program, Château de Luc invites you to discover more than just wine:
👉 a family story
👉 a living terroir
👉 and unforgettable shared moments

Whether you are a wine lover, a curious traveler, or simply looking for meaningful experiences, each event is a new opportunity to connect and celebrate.

✨ We look forward to welcoming you to Château de Luc for an unforgettable season!

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🌿 Famille Fabre renews its commitment: BIOED certification for the second consecutive year

At Famille Fabre, every vintage tells a story of passion, heritage… and commitment. Today, we are proud to share an important milestone: we have been awarded the BIOED label for the second year in a row. A recognition that confirms the path we have chosen together.

✅ What does the BIOED label mean?

The BIOED label (Bio Entreprise Durable) goes far beyond organic certification. It highlights companies that are committed to a global approach to responsibility, integrating:

  • environmental respect
  • team well-being
  • ethical and transparent governance
  • strong local engagement

In concrete terms, this means our commitment doesn’t stop in the vineyard or the cellar: it extends to everything we do, from production to customer relationships, and including everyday team life.

🌱 What this renewal means for us

Receiving this label for the first time was a great achievement.
Earning it again for a second consecutive year… is confirmation.

👉 It proves that our commitment is deep, structured, and long-term, not just a one-time effort.
👉 It shows that we are moving in the right direction, continuously improving our practices.
👉 It reflects our determination to innovate and challenge ourselves to do even better.

At Famille Fabre, this recognition resonates strongly with our vision:
to craft living, authentic wines in harmony with our environment and human values.

👏 A huge congratulations to our teams!

Behind this certification are, above all, the people who make it possible every day.

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all our teams:

  • in the vineyard, for their dedicated and environmentally respectful work
  • in the cellar, for their precision and high standards
  • in sales and administration, for carrying our values forward
  • and to everyone contributing, directly or indirectly, to this collective effort

This renewal is truly a team achievement, built on shared values and a common ambition to move forward together.

🚀 What’s next?

This second BIOED certification is not a final destination — it’s another step forward.

It encourages us to:

  • go even further in our sustainable practices
  • continue innovating (in our wines, our offers, and our wine tourism experiences)
  • strengthen our connection with our region and our community

Because at Famille Fabre, we believe the wine of tomorrow is built today, with conviction, creativity, and responsibility.

🌿 Thank you to everyone who supports us on this journey — our teams, partners, and clients. Together, we are shaping a more committed and inspiring vision of wine.

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Follow Famille Fabre on YouTube: @famillefabreVins

Follow Famille Fabre on YouTube: step inside our vineyards
At Famille Fabre, wine is first and foremost a story of family, terroir and creativity. To go beyond the blog and share our daily lives as winemakers with complete transparency, we’ve created our Famille Fabre YouTube channel.
🎥 An authentic immersion in the world of Famille Fabre
On our YouTube channel, we take you to the heart of our 100% certified organic vineyards in Languedoc. You’ll discover:
•⁠ ⁠a behind-the-scenes look at the vineyard and the cellar,
•⁠ ⁠our winemaking choices and creative experiments,
•⁠ ⁠a focus on our unconventional wines (pet nat, orange wine, alcohol-free, SO₂-free…),
•⁠ ⁠meetings with the 16th generation of the Fabre family,
🍇 Learn, understand and share wine in a different way
Our YouTube channel is designed as a space for learning, sharing and enjoyment, accessible to everyone: curious amateurs, wine enthusiasts, professionals or simply passing visitors.
👉 Subscribe to our Famille Fabre YouTube channel
By subscribing, you won’t miss a single video and can follow the life of our vineyards, our organic commitments and our creative vision of wine throughout the seasons.
➡️ Subscribe now to the Famille Fabre YouTube channel and experience wine from the inside.

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Six Silver Medals for Famille Fabre: A Shared Pride

Six Silver Medals for Famille Fabre: A Shared Pride

This year, two major competitions have honored the work of Famille Fabre with six silver medals—a recognition that means a great deal to all of us.

At the Challenge Millésime Bio, an international benchmark for organic wines, these distinctions highlight our long‑standing commitment to a clean, vibrant, and demanding form of viticulture. They shine a light on the precision of our vineyard work and the authentic expression of our terroirs.

The ANIVIN Best Value competition also rewarded several of our cuvées for their excellent quality‑to‑price ratio. This reinforces our belief that great wine should remain accessible, generous, and true to its origins.

Two competitions, two perspectives, one message: quality, commitment, and pleasure guide every bottle we craft.

These medals are the result of collective work—from the vineyard to the cellar—and they give us renewed energy for the journey ahead.

Awarded Wines – Silver Medals

Wine Vintage Competition Medal
LUX LEVIS CINSAULT 2024 Challenge Millésime Bio Silver
LOUIS ANDRIEU ORANGE WINE 2023 Challenge Millésime Bio Silver
GRANDE COURTADE PINOT NOIR 2024 ANIVIN Best Value Silver
LUX TANO TEMPRANILLO 2024 ANIVIN Best Value Silver
LE RENDEZ VOUS NM ANIVIN Best Value Silver
LOUIS ANDRIEU ORANGE WINE 2023 ANIVIN Best Value Silver
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WINE FAIRS 2026: Millésime BIO, Le Levée de la Loire, Wine Paris

MILLESIME BIO (JAN. 26-28) B2 764 + 763｜LA LEVEE DE LA LOIRE (FEB. 2-3)｜ WINE PARIS (FEB. 9-11) 7.2 D280

We are delighted to announce that Famille Fabre will be attending the 2026 trade shows, looking forward to seeing you again!

We will be delighted to introduce our organic wines to industry professionals, including wine merchants, importers, restaurateurs, buyers, and others.

We hope to see many of you there to share a moment of tasting and discussion about our organic wines. See you soon!

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🌿 Join Famille Fabre Online: Step Into the Heart of Living Wines

In a world that moves fast—where we all seek meaning, beauty, and authenticity—social media has become a window into the stories that truly matter. At Famille Fabre, we’ve chosen to make these platforms warm, vibrant spaces where we share who we really are: a family of committed, passionate winegrowers, united around a terroir we’ve cherished and protected for over 400 years.

Today, we invite you to follow us, step into our daily life, and experience our seasons, our challenges, our successes, and the inspirations that guide us.

🍇 Why follow us?

  1. To experience the vineyard through real, everyday moments

On our social channels, you’ll discover what labels don’t show:

  • early-morning harvests,
  • precise gestures in the cellar,
  • landscapes shifting with the seasons,
  • small victories that make big differences,
  • innovations we’re testing to adapt to a changing climate.
  1. To meet the people behind the wines

Our teams, our partners, fellow winemakers, creatives, seasonal workers… Every bottle is a collective adventure, and we love shining a light on the faces that make Famille Fabre what it is.

  1. To get first access to our latest releases

New cuvées, new labels, bold projects, artistic collaborations, events… Our followers are always the first to know.

  1. To explore a freer, more joyful, more accessible vision of wine

We believe in wines that bring people together, that tell stories, that surprise. Wines to be enjoyed with the heart as much as with the palate.

📲 Where to find us

👉 Instagram: @famillefabre @chateaudeluc our wine tourism window

A vibrant mix of images, videos, behind-the-scenes moments, and snapshots of daily life. The best place to follow us in real time.

👉 Facebook: Famille Fabre

https://www.facebook.com/famillefabre For detailed updates, events, and conversations with our loyal community.

👉 LinkedIn: Famille Fabre

https://www.linkedin.com/company/famillefabre/ (linkedin.com in Bing) To dive into our vision, commitments, innovations, and the life of the company.

🌟 Join us, share with us, inspire us

Our social channels aren’t showcases — they’re meeting places. Every comment, message, and share fuels our energy and our desire to create, innovate, and pass things on.

If you love our wines, our story, our way of working the land and celebrating the living world → Follow us, and let’s grow this community together.

See you online — and hopefully soon at the estate. Famille Fabre 🍷🌿

 

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2026: des voeux pétillants | sparkling wishes

✨ Bonne année 2026 ! ✨
Que cette nouvelle année soit effervescente, pleine de projets qui pétillent, de moments qui brillent et de belles découvertes à partager.
Chez Famille Fabre, nous levons nos verres à la créativité, à la convivialité et à toutes les bulles de bonheur – et de Pet Nat qui feront vibrer 2026 ! 🥂

Et vous, quel sera votre premier toast de l’année ?

✨ Happy New Year 2026! ✨
May this year be effervescent, filled with sparkling projects, bright moments, and wonderful discoveries to share.
At Famille Fabre, we raise our glasses to creativity, conviviality, and all the bubbles of happiness – and Pet Nat that will make 2026 shine! 🥂

What will be your first toast of the year?

Illustration de Caroline Laguerre

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Image of the day The Étang de Montady, southern France | COPERNICUS

Le domaine de la Grande Courtade où “pousse” notre gamme PLAISIR, nos cuvées en IGP Pays d’Oc est passé sous l’oeil attentif de COPERNICUS.. nous vous racontons souvent ce terroir si particulier du “soleil vert” cet étang asséché au moyen âge.

Crédit : Union européenne, imagerie Copernicus Sentinel-2

L’étang de Montady, situé dans le sud de la France près de la ville de Montady, est un exemple remarquable de remise en état des terres au Moyen Âge. À l’origine une zone humide, il a été asséché au XIIIe siècle à l’aide d’un système radial de fossés convergeant vers un point de collecte central. Cette conception hydraulique ingénieuse a transformé la région en terres agricoles fertiles et créé un motif en rayons de soleil qui reste clairement visible aujourd’hui.

Cette image en fausses couleurs, acquise par l’un des satellites Copernicus Sentinel-2 le 11 mai 2024, montre la disposition radiale du paysage agricole entourant l’ancienne zone humide, entrecoupée de canaux et de routes.

Les données ouvertes des satellites Copernicus Sentinel sont essentielles pour surveiller l’évolution de l’utilisation des sols et la productivité agricole. Ces données permettent de suivre la dynamique saisonnière de la végétation et de soutenir la gestion durable des terres et de l’eau dans le monde entier.