We’re not going to lie to each other: in these times of restrictions and predictions of the end of the world, it is good to find yourself at the home of a real aperitif lover. After several meetings over tea or plain water – sobriety or rehab obliges – we appreciate, at the risk of being taken for a pochtron, to share a good bottle of wine. Florent Marchet, author-composer-singer-writer, welcomes us to his home with a drinkable little natural red from behind the faggots. We see you snickering: natural wine, this new fashionable thing that allows green boos to drink with a clear conscience. Except that we are dealing with a professional and not a follower on the lookout for the latest trend.
Florent Marchet had a problem: he always “liked drunkenness, but at the end of the first glass [son] body was covered with red patches. In some wines, there are more chemicals than in cigarettes. » More than ten years ago, a friend made him taste a natural wine. Miracle, even after three scoops, no allergies. At this evocation, with his chestnut curls, his sky blue eyes and his soft voice, he becomes poetic. “Natural wine is art, like music or literature. It is not the same from one year to another, from one bottle to another, it is a living matter that opens, the first glass does not have the same taste as the last. » Drinking plain, a political gesture also for this artist who has his heart set on the left: “Behind each winegrower, there is a personality, an ethic, a real approach. They are craftsmen who are interested in something other than profit, they are not there to make money. » Questions that speak to those who have had troubled relations with the record industry.
Effervescence in a lost village
In this piece of garden with a pergola decorated with cushions, colored fabrics and a carnival garland, at 47, he quietly savors his drink. The aperitif, as usual, “It’s not with anyone”he says. “It’s a moment of sharing with real friends, people with whom we can discuss, with whom we can put ourselves off, the aperitif can approach a form of meditation. » We retain the argument, it can always be used. “In a world where we live either turned towards the past or towards the future, the aperitif marks a pause. It’s not nothing to toast, it’s to emphasize that we are in the present moment. »
” [Mes parents] have always nourished me. At 9 years old, I listened to Bach, Schubert, Scarlatti, Chopin over and over.
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