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Katie Jones makes daringly different wines in rural France from very old vines

21/10/2026

Straight-talking Kieron from Atkinson English Sparkling W**e fame English W**e Project is not one to mince his words. He calls a spade a spade! 🪏🍾

Nephew Will and I had a fascinating, eye-opening visit from the man who dared to make sparkling w**e in a shed in Derby!

Plenty of lively discussion, a few home truths and lots of food for thought. Always refreshing to meet someone who challenges convention, speaks his mind and isn’t afraid to do things differently. That strangely reminds me of someone 😉

Thanks for the visit, Kieron 🥂

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26/09/2026

Well, what a lovely surprise we had this week! 🍇🌿

Alex from brought some rather nice people to visit us at Domaine Jones.

After a picnic lunch at the w**ery, they came up to the Aguilar vineyard to meet us old vines.

And then came the big moment…

One of the guests chose me! ❤️

Yes, out of all the old Carignan vines in Aguilar, I was one of the 5 lucky vines that were adopted.

So now I have someone following my adventures through pruning, budburst, flowering, those long hot summer days and, eventually, harvest.

Not bad when you’re well over 100 years old.

Thank you Alex for bringing my new friend to meet me. I promise to grow some lovely grapes in return.

À bientôt from Aguilar 🌿🍷
A lucky old vine x

18/09/2026

The last grape has been picked 🍇
The last vat has been pressed 🍷
And here’s to the end of the 2026 harvest!

The w**ery is full of lovely aromas, happy memories and plenty of smiles.

A huge merci to our little dream team for all the hard work, laughter, early mornings and long days that made it possible.

Another vintage safely tucked away. ❤️

15/09/2026

A dirty day at the w**ery.

12/09/2026

Katie’s Old Vine Club Harvest Day to celebrate the end of the 2026 harvest. Old Vine rescuers came to help pick the grapes from my 121 year old carignan vines here in Tuchan and we had such a good time! When I first started my Domaine I dreamt of doing something like this - a dream come true!

05/09/2026

There comes a point during les vendanges when appearances go out of the window and it’s all about survival. 😂

When your shorts decide they’ve had enough, there’s no time to change — you grab a bit of rope, tie them up and get back to the grapes.

No stylist. No designer belt. No problem.

Haute couture, version vigneronne. 🍇😂

04/09/2026

Big day in our little w**ery.

All the old vine grenache safely in vat with some expert organisation and muscle 💪 power from nephew Will!

🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇

03/09/2026

When it’s too hot to harvest in the afternoon Michel, Delphine and the pickers 🇪🇸 put on their head torches and started picking before sunrise !

28/08/2026

🍇 Old vines helping old friends 🍇

Very happy to be able to help out fellow w**emaker Gilles Troullier, who lost a heartbreaking 90% of his vineyards in the wildfires in July.

Since then, Gilles has been inundated with offers of grapes from neighbouring vignerons — a wonderful reminder of just how supportive the w**e community can be when things go wrong. ❤️

But Gilles had to venture a little further afield to find white grapes and my old vines were only too happy to step in and donate some of their precious Grenache Gris grapes. 🍇 They’re rather proud to know that their grapes will help Gilles actually make some w**e this year.

After everything he has been through, we’re wishing Gilles all the luck in the world for what must be an unimaginably difficult vintage.

Courage Gilles — et bonne vinification! 🇫🇷🍷

27/08/2026

The chilling system packed up on Sunday. 😱 A w**emaker’s nightmare.

And obviously it chose a Sunday. In August. During harvest. Because why wouldn’t it? 😂

With the whites mid-ferment and temperatures outside pushing the high 30s, things could have gone seriously wrong. Pas de panique 🫨

So we did what old vines have taught us to do: adapt, be patient and keep going. 🌿🍇 If a 100-year-old Carignan can survive drought, heatwaves and wild boar, surely we could survive four days without our chilling system.

We changed the picking schedule, transferred our precious little lots of fermenting juice into the refrigerated re**er (thank goodness for that!), ordered a new compressor and found a repair team willing to come out in August. 🥳

And today, four rather long days later, by 5pm we should finally be back up and chilling. 🤞❄️

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