Sara et Charles, Les Obrières

Before we started Domaine Obrière in 2019, our lives were worlds away from the vineyard.

I, Sara, was working in HR for large corporations, while Charles was in the Bolivian Altiplano focused on rural development and goat farming.
We both came from multicultural backgrounds—I grew up near Paris with Italian roots, and Charles in rural Picardy with a French mother and Scottish father—but neither of us had a background in wine.
To be honest, I had never even seen a vine up close, and when we began, we had absolutely nothing: not a single tank, not even a pair of pruning shears.

We built everything from scratch, a total 'four-handed' creation that we’ve poured ourselves into bit by bit. We’ve been renovating an old winemaker’s house and bringing a small cellar back to life from its ashes right in the heart of a traditional Hérault village.

It makes us so proud to know that we produce 15,000 to 20,000 bottles of natural wine today. There is something truly magical about seeing the village come alive again during harvest; people stop and stare as they see the hand-picked grapes arriving in crates at the centre of town.
It brings a sense of life back to a place that had almost become a 'dormitory' village.

When we aren't in the vines or with our two children, Chiara and Alexis, you’ll find Charles rowing or swimming, while I’m into dance and Hyrox.
We still love to travel whenever we can save a little, keeping that same spirit of adventure that led us to start this journey with nothing but a dream.