EMMANUEL GIBOULOT

Burgundy, France

In 2014, Emmanuel Giboulot was convicted and fined by the French government for refusing to spray harmful chemicals in his vineyards. With the support of his community, he fought the ruling and eventually succeeded in getting it overturned, allowing him to continue to farm his ten hectares biodynamically. Giboulot is a second-generation vigneron in the Côte de Beaune. His father passed along his organic 1 hectare vineyard in 1985 and Giboulot converted it to biodynamic over the next 10 years and expanded the family's holdings tenfold. Giboulot farms pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot beurrot (a rare white burgundian varietal) on chalk and clay soil.