Montain guide and ski instructor, Lucien spent 40 years of his life between Serre Chevalier and Chamonix in the Alps, finishing his career as a manager in a National sporting institution. he retired in 1991 and decided to become with his wife and daughter a wine grower.
Claude grew up in Cassis with her grand-father Emile Bodin, but with her passion for the mountains she left the Provence to follow her husband Lucien.
She began as a ski instructor, then took over the management of a sport shop.
After inheritating from her grand-father sold the shop to return with the family to the Provence to run the vineyards Clos val Bruyere and Chateau Barbanau.
After a literary baccalaureat studied marketing and for a while ran a sport shop. After the return to the vineyard she decided to return to an agricultural school to study wine and viticulture. Since 1989 she has been involved in running the vineyard and the elaboration of the wine; she's assisted today by her husband Didier.
After a scientific baccalaureat studied Natural Science and obtained his oenologist diploma in Dijon having since being wine making in various regions of France. He married Sophie in 1996 and has been working next to her since 1998.

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