Les Pieds sur Terre came to life in 2014, when 26 year old Valentin Morel took the reins of the familiy vineyards and winery in Poligny.
A deep thinker, Valentin studied law with the bold plan of wanting to change the world (as many ambitious 19 and 20 year olds do) He completed his degree and was employed by the French Government as a lawyer, but within a month, Valentin soon understood that this was not for him. He realised that his father, a humble vigneron, could do more to change the world than he as a lawyer.
is agriculture and viticulture studies were done in Alsace. It was to be a pivitol period with introductions to Bruno Schueller and Pierre Frick. Valentin likes to say it’s a paradox, but he discovered the natural wines of Jura whilst in Alsace.
Upon returning home to Poligny, the first thing Valentin did was convert the 6 hectares of vineyards to biodynamic farming practises, influenced not only by the teachings of Steiner but by Masanobu Fukuoka, the Japanese writer of The One Straw Revolution.


