The key of the soils
Pianist : Thierry Parcé
Title : Vieux Pleyel
Filigrane (watermark), translates also into ornamental work of fine (typically gold or silver) wire formed into delicate thread from a handmade work, which assumes the form of vine leave.
A vine leaf, where the many plant tissues combine and intertwine for an ephemeral time, in the only one purpose : offer to the vine stock and to the grapes the nutrients that they obviously need.
Filigrane would be associated with “vin de terroir”. We highlight the fine, elegant, non-standardized wines, which represent their “lieux dits”, their regions. Our wines are from the handmade work, and interpret our“terroir” (soils).
We could compare this work with the manufacture of a watermark, where the time, patience and thoroughness will go into the main elements, unlike the paper industry.
The composition of a wine is not just the simple description of its grape varieties, but all the details are connected on the same thread, a fragility linked to climatic hazards.
It’s a path, a route, which will go from « la taille de la vigne » (the cut of the vine) until the bottling.
We are in an era when speed is the only key word, or we must burn the steps to arrive as quickly as possible to a result, in a problem for profitability and economy.
Not to follow this current movement, Filigrane will participate, as an art gallery owner dose, in the development and in the sharing of this know-how.
--- Jean-Emmanuel Parcé
Fondateurs : Jun XIAO PARCE
Jean-Emmanuel PARCE (vigneron)
The Soils / Terroirs
Collioure
Les Aspres
L'Agly
Les contreforts
des Corbières
- Terres rouges
Our Wins
soils & man's work
Collioure
Hauts de cosprons
AOP Coullioure
Contreforts des Corbières
Mona
AOP Côtes du Roussillon
La petite Mona
IGP Côtes Catalane
Les Terres Calcinées
Les Aspres
AOP Côtes du Roussillon Villages
Collioure
AOP Coullioure
La Bergerie des abeilles
since 12th century
A historic place to welcome you
Arcs of circles, made of schist stone, land, sand, keystones. All this gathered in one place, la bergerie des Abeilles, a 12th century building located in Banyuls sur mer at the bottom of the valley of “Abeilles”. It is in this valley (Coume as in Catalan) that the first dwellings were erected in Banyuls.
A Romanesque chapel (called Sainte Marie des Abeilles) and the adjoining farmhouse overlook this bergerie.
A place steeped in history, this geographical location surrounded by vineyards which are cared for by Domain de la Rectorie, is also a welcome place who will be able to show you the different talents selected by Filigrane.
A building who has passed through the centuries and is reborn this year 2019 after a renovation which has proved necessary because the time has had a hold over the centuries on it.
This year we are witnessing the birth of Filigrane and the rebirth of La bergerie des Abeilles.
Two destinies that would merge with, as a keystone, key of the soils, a sharing of know-how and of the culture, and then the shales, shales and still the shales ...
--- Jean-Emmanuel Parcé
History of
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Once upon a time there were three sisters who lived in the land of paper. We call them Calligraphy, Typography and Photography. People came from far away to know their science.
Their host, the paper was born a long time ago in China. He was very humble, refused to sign his works. He hid his name, leaving only his imprint in the fiber so that the light in transparency delivered the identity of the hands who had shaped it. This imprint, only the connoisseurs knew to decipher the meaning.
It was called filigrane because the expert hands had formed a wire iron immersed in the dough of crushed rags, the design of this signature.
I came to this country to know the language of the three sisters. One day, as I was working and thinking to form the initial Filigrane f, the calligraphy told me (she had guided my eyes towards the end of a bamboo stalk): "Your calame draws the gestures of hands to which you give life. Hands of dancer (this bamboo stalk), hands of craftsman, of vine-grower, of worker. Hands of musician, of writer. The waving bamboo stem, the dancer's hand come from the same author, with the same intention: the search for balance, elegance, the praise of creation ".
Encouraged by these words I traced with a gesture a vertical oblique closing at the root. The supple and already powerful barrel of a young beech.
The typography intervened: "We will marry later this child to a letter that I will draw now. It will be a Didone, a letter for all loose, letter drawn punch.
Like the end of eighteenth century , a child sparkling and romantic. She will excel in the performance of Mozart. The photograph stayed away, watching.
"I am a contemplative (I often reproach myself for not acting), do not be anxious to me to stay in this way, it is my nature. I would like to fix the fraction of a second of your gestures, of your looks that will never come back.
By isolating them, by fixing them, I would like to teach you the richness of each moment. I am a small piece of life that remains on a leaf Fragile.
--- Pierre Parcé
Calligrapher, Typographer et Photographer
Our photos
Wonderful moments with our winemakers, fantastic environment
