Did you know that each of the Frisant vintages highlights a natural ally of the fauna and flora of the Vineyard?
The label of each vintage is beautifully illustrated by local artist Stéphane Lemardelé. In addition, each year he draws inspiration from a historical work to showcase our labels!
We invite you to discover the inspiration behind each of our labels.
Vintage 2021 - The touch of ladybugs
We have chosen to highlight ladybugs for our very first vintage. They are naturally present in the vineyard ecosystem and play an essential role in protecting our vines. Feeding on harmful insects (aphids), they are valuable allies of our sustainable viticulture .
A ladybug preying on a colony of aphids which are harmful to vines.
Artist's inspiration
Our ladybugs touch their legs like The Creation of Adam which is one of the 9 frescoes, painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican Museums in Rome.
Vintage 2022 - The young blackbird gimlet
The 2022 vintage highlighted the Bluebird, a bird in significant decline in Quebec. It is present in our ecosystem thanks to the nesting boxes placed around the Vineyard. This insectivore plays an essential role in protecting our vines by consuming more than 1,000 insects per day during the nesting period.
The Bluebird consumes vine pests such as: Vine flea beetle, Red-headed flea beetle, beetles, weevils and vine budworm caterpillars.
Artist's inspiration
Our bluebird strikes a pose from Girl with a Pearl Earring, an oil painting on canvas by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer circa 1665.
Vintage 2023 - The house of swallows
The 2023 vintage highlights a pair of tree swallows that we welcome in large numbers thanks to around a hundred nest boxes installed in the Vineyard .
Our goal is to preserve and enhance our biodiversity by creating developments that are beneficial to both wildlife and our agricultural production. Thus, to encourage the presence of bird species that are beneficial to crops, we compensate for the lack of natural cavities in and around the vineyard plots by installing nest boxes.
These pretty swallows contribute in particular to:
- A natural and ecological regulation of insects harmful to vines,
- proper functioning of the agroecosystem,
- increasing local biodiversity,
- the resilience of our wine-growing operation.
Our nest boxes are home to many tree swallows, which are aerial insectivorous birds known to be major consumers of insects.
Artist's inspiration
Our pair of swallows pose in front of their sloping-roofed home like the painting American Gothic, a 1930 painting by Grant Wood.
The 2023 vintage comes from a batch of 2,500 bottles.
Produced in limited quantity, it has been on sale since June 28, 2024 exclusively at the Vineyard.
To make sure you taste it, would you like to buy bottles in advance and pick them up during the season? It's possible on our online store ! You just have to select the "pick up in store" option during the payment process, this option is free.
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