SOn one hectare of land on the small coast, the vines of the “clos des baobabs” bloom. The first harvest took place last April. Two months later, the 5000 plants planted produced around sixty bottles. “A structured and pleasant rosé to drink without problem as an aperitif,” assures Franco-Senegalese oenologist Mokhsine Diouf, one of the partners in the business. Objective of the next harvest: 500 bottles, reports lemonde.fr, which devoted a report to the case.
To arrive at this result, it was necessary to tame the nature hostile to this kind of culture. It was necessary to fetch water at 180 meters in the water table, recreate the dormancy (vegetative cycle of the vine), remove termites and other parasites, fight against monkeys, which bite the grapes. A hell of a job, which did not roll back Mokhsine Diouf and his associates: François Normant, a computer scientist landed in Senegal in 2007, and Philippe Franchois, an insurer who worked for thirty years in Meursault before returning to his native country.
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