There are a lot of issues at stake in Olivier Cousin’s resurgent court case. To read about the whole mess, you could check out our old posts here, and for the latest updates, read Jim Budd’s post here. The heart of the issue is not a mere case of overly tyrannical wine labeling laws, or even the […]
Click Here to Buy a Tee-Shirt and Help Support Olivier at our New Cafe Press Store! Olivier Cousin is fighting against big business right now. The Inter Loire and the AOC system are unfortunately in the pocket of industrial farming operations, as you can read in his letter. They’ve polluted his land, co-opted […]
This is a translation of an interview with Olivier Cousin that appeared on Vindicateur.fr, a French site that attempts to reveal the behind the scenes action of the wine industry. In case you missed it, you can buy a tee-shirt (or a hoodie, tote bag, or water bottle) to support Olivier at our cafepress store […]
There is a ton of chatter going on right on the internet about Olivier’s fight against Inter Loire and the AOC. Here’s a roundup of the various articles out there: Mike Steinberger, the former Slate wine columnist has a post up on his blog entitled, French Wine Bureaucrats: Stop the Madness! Even Michel Bettane (the […]
This letter was orginally published in French on Alice Feiring’s blog, but we have translated it here for you (the English version comes below after the French version). If you haven’t done it already, please sign the petition to help Olivier here. Ben voila pourquoi je suis contrôle par la répression des fraudes et de la concurrence . Cela fait 3 […]
Most winemakers don’t treat their vineyard like a treasured hand-tilled garden, or choose to work their land with horses. Olivier Cousin does choose these ways, and for those reasons he doesn’t fit into the established order of French Winemaking. He, like many other natural winemakers, has decided not to work within the Appellation Origine […]