Vaucluse: the monks of Barroux Abbey have launched a wine sales operation to finance their tractor

Located between Mont Ventoux and the Montmirail lacein the abbey of Sainte-Madelaine du Barroux (Vaucluse), 60 monks juggle a life of prayer and hard work.

The residents of the monastery live from their agricultural work, from the vineyard to the emptying, the whole community gets involved.

“I risked my life sometimes”

From 1985the monks of the abbey of Sainte-Madelaine du Barroux cultivated their vineyard using the same wine tractor.

Small downside, the tractor’s brakes failed and it became completely unusable.

Brother Michel suffered the whims of this old machine. “It was still very dangerous. Sometimes I risked my life,” explains the monk.

The monks first uses their own network, the friends of the monastery, in order to finance the purchase of a new tractor. But this was not enough to achieve their goal.

The nuns did not open a kitty to finance their tractor. They preferred an option that showcases the fruits of their labor.

They launch a large online sales operation for their wines and exceptionally offer their two best “Abbayes” vintagesusually confidential.

Online sales via Divine Box

For this, they called on Divine Boxan online sales site for monastic products.

Through this platform, they put on sale, among other things, their Lux rosé winea 2022 vintage, rated 4 stars + by Paul Op Ten Berg, or even the red wine “Abbayes”15 to 20 years of aging, selected by Matt Walls, great taster of “Decanter”.

Asked by -.fr, Domitille Bothieroperations director at Divine Box, explains: “The abbey has already received the tractor, but it is only a matter ofan advance. Among our discussions, they made us understand that ideally, he would have to sell more than 15,000 or 20,000 bottles in the following weeks to pay him. So it’s urgent.”

Bottles between 72.60 and 300.08 euros

Their first level to reach is to 5,000 bottles sold by Sunday June 2.

Offered in packs of six bottlesthe price of white wines, red wines and rosé wines varies between 72.60 euros and 300.08 euros.

THE deliveries will take place between June 13 and 24.

Online sales are available here.

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