Val has always been a farmer and got into winemaking from the farming side. He reintroduced animals onto his vineyards and each year a herd comes down from the alps to graze the winter on the plots, providing natural mowing and great compost. All of his vineyards are vinified separately with natural yeast and without added sulphites, done to fully express their difference of terroir. And now with the help of his neighbour’s horse he manages his vineyard under strict biodynamic management, preferring the use of herbal teas to copper and sulphur.

Valentin Létoquart is one of the southern Rhone’s most exciting young producers. Disillusioned by seeing his hard work in the vineyard lost in the bottle Val decided to break away from the Cooperative he was growing for and in 2013 Val de Combrès was born. Valentin now manages 7ha of certified biodynamic vines in Oppède and Ménerbes, in the heart of Luberon southeastern Rhone Valley.