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She may be the face I can't forget The trace of pleasure or regret May be my treasure or the price I have to pay She may be the song that summer sings May be the chill that autumn brings May be a hundred different things Within the measure of a day Elegant, exotic, modern, seductive, lingering These words are normally used on wines But could also in describing a woman There seems to be a separated connection between wine and women However, what could happen between them in such a male-dominated world? Sigourney Lefebvre, a female writer, explored the relationship between wine and women from a historical perspective in her first book named Love Between Women and Wine. People say many things about women and wine. It is driven by marketing. Today, people say strange things about women and wine, such as female winemakers make different wines, which I do not believe at all. There are many old beliefs, which go back to 2,000 years to Roman times. There are still men who believe women should not walk into a cellar during fermentation. This is totally wrong and irrational. I'm trying to show how this is wrong. Sigourney attracted lots of attention at the Bordeaux Wine Expo 2009 with a book which cost her five years. She is also a historian on medieval wines and a woman who has immense interest in Bordeaux wine. Most of the works on winemaking are written by men. Sigourney's family and girlfriend make this book creative and intriguing. 在我的研究中, I found some very funny things. For instance, until the end of 19th century, only men wrote about women and wine. So you have a very amusing look of men upon women, even sometimes nasty, but most often funny. Everything became possible when women drank. In the 18th century, the great writer and seducer Casanova told how he used champagne to have women fall into his bed. Wine was considered as good for love and an effort dessert. In fact, wine is not good for love if you drink too much, but just a little amount might in fact help. Today, it was very interesting to talk with men about women and wine. As Sigourney mentioned, there is a heresy in medieval Europe that wine became sour if women went into a cellar during fermentation. As the asceticism faded out, it is common for women to drink wines, although there are still few women in the winemaking field. Along with the two feminist movements, women have become participative in all kinds of social activities, including the winemaking industry. We see more and more women in the wine business and for the consumption of wine. Before, we didn't think they can do this job, but they do it, and they do it very well. I agree, of course, with what Daniel says kindly, and I think we have more cutters in the mouth and in the nose, chiefly. We are better with the nose, maybe because we were educated with perfumes and creams. After, during the tasting, men are better because they have stronger muscular mass and they can taste more, which is important because good tasting is also training. Daniel Cathier is a former French ski champion, and his wife Florence is a successful businesswoman. In 1990, this couple sold all their business interests and bought Chateau Smith Hartlevy. This chateau has a vineyard that covers 72 hectares of typical gravel and owns the biggest cellar in Boulder. An upscale hotel and a spa and many sculptures fill the place with an enchanting, athletic ambience. All these go to the exceptional management and artistic taste of Florence. At Chateau Smith Hartlevy, we have the privilege of having not many but beautiful works of art, especially the giant hare by Barry Flanagan. And I was lucky enough to have Barry here in the vineyard and he shared my vision of having a huge hare jumping above the vines. And the hare is a symbol of hospitality because he has his legs stretched between the hotel of our daughter and the chateau here. And the hares are liked by the winemakers because when you have hares in the vineyard, you don't get rabbits. And rabbits are our enemy. They eat the grapes. They eat the vines. And the hares make only two babies a year and they eat the grass. And during the night of full moon, you can see the hares dancing, the real hares, dancing under the statue. The other statue I prefer is the one by Mimmo Palladino. And it's a symbol of what wine represents for us because you can see the great man who is inspired by the saints from the old religion and he is eaten by all the bronze birds. And it's a little like a winemaker who offers his wine and says, this is my blood. In such a chateau filled with faming delicacy, the wines produced here have a rich flavor of originality and softness. Mr. and Mrs. Cathayard have two daughters, Mathilde and Alice, who are also engaging in wine-related works. Mathilde and her husband Bertrand Thomas manage the Caudalie, a cosmetic brand which produces make-ups from grape extract, while Alice runs a spa by treating the body with wines. As a successful winemaker, wife and mother, Florence's life is inseparable from the wines. During the blending, Daniel has always the last word because as I am the merchant, I always wish to enlarge a little the selection and is more drastic than I am. And as we have been knowing each other since we were children, I was 14, he was 18. We grew up together. It's a long, long story and I can end these sentences, which sometimes I do, but in the long run, he has always a strategic decision and I agree. So we prefer the wine of a family, of a couple. That's the best blend, I should say. Statistics indicate that the proportion of female wine specialists has increased from 14% to 25% since 1988, and it is still on the rise. Nowadays, the numbers of female winemaker, wine taster and family business supremo increased significantly. The history of Chateau Pigeon Baham could be traced back to the 17th century. The name of the brand sounds masculine, but its winemaker is a female. This barrel is empty. We just emptied it and cleaned it with hot water, cold water and steam. And now we're going to sterilize it before we pour wine inside. So we're going to take a little piece of sulfur. We're going to burn it. So I'm going to take it like that to burn it. And I'm going to put this little pastille, like we call it in France, inside the barrel. OK. And we're going to leave it inside for 15 minutes to get consumed and sterilize the whole barrel before we pour wine inside. It is a very masculine environment in the wine world. You have to prove yourself all the time. You have to do more than men. You have to work more with much strength. It is my personal opinion. You have to show that you are physically strong, like moving barrels. I bring the wine a feminine touch. I work with refined wines, elegant, more structured. I believe the consumers understand and want more refined wines. A masculine wine is with wood and powerful, and a wine by women is more refined and lighter. Chateau Pigeon Bahon is a crude class in Boyac with a long history. In 1987, Axel Insurance Company took over the winery and a beef affiliate. This wine, which used to be considered of strong masculinity, acquires more elegant and a lingering taste after the employment of the female winemaker. This is what I said, nice sustained color, very expressive aromas, very fresh fruit and a ripe red fruit. We have little vegetal taste. We could extract to the maximum. Powerful in the mouth, very structured, fragrant tannin, dense. I'm very surprised. After only 10 months in the barrel, it is really good. Kodiu,a town, lies in the north part of Rong Valley in Kodahati, is famous for its wine made from Vionia. Christina Ferney, as the third generation of the family, runs her wine business here. I have brothers. They have other interests and passions. They went into other directions. I have passion for wine. After passion for Italy and literature, I came back to wine. Maybe I shocked in the beginning. In fact, I have little problem being a woman among men. Everything comes naturally without much explanation. In the late 19th century, the Vionia succumbed to phylloxera because of its low ability to resisting diseases. It was soon abandoned by farmers in France, and the yield decreased dramatically, almost to extinction. Vionia is specific to Kodiu. It is my father who saved Vionia. In 1950s, Vionia had only 5 hectares in her ward. Now it is fashionable, and you find it here and elsewhere. The winery produces both red and white, all are of typical Vionia, with floral aromas and soft flavor of honey, white rose, peach and sweet almond. With Sigoni, Florence, Christina or other female winemakers, we could see more and more women playing increasingly important roles in the wine world. A Walk in the Clouds, the movie in 1995, showed us a festive grape-stomping scene of women. Isn't it the best depiction of harmony and intimacy it should be between women and wine?