Domaine Tour Campanets — Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, right in the heart of Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence, and a career-change story I genuinely love telling. Emmanuelle Baude was a notaire, a lawyer, before she walked away from all of it in 2012 to chase a dream she couldn't shake — buying this 101-hectare property, 32 of it under vine, and committing fully to bringing it back to life.
She didn't mess about either — organic conversion application went in the same month she took over, certification landed by August 2012. Her own words sum up the whole philosophy nicely: chemical industry might have made farmers' lives easier once, but for her, organic farming isn't optional, it's a necessity. Respecting the land is simply the obvious thing to do.
This is proper old Provence terroir too — Romans planted vines here, Gauls built villas and sacred sites on this same ground, troubadours sang about it. Emmanuelle's cuvées carry real soul because of it — Bois des Fées, a gold medal-winning rosé, Esprit Campanets and the flagship Tour Campanets bottling all showing what patient, principled farming can coax out of old Provençal land.
Beyond the vineyard, she's now president of Les Éléonores de Provence, a collective of vigneronnes and women entrepreneurs championing Provence's art of living. A genuinely inspiring pivot — trading contracts for vine rows, and clearly never looking back.
Domaine Tour Campanets — Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, right in the heart of Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence, and a career-change story I genuinely love telling. Emmanuelle Baude was a notaire, a lawyer, before she walked away from all of it in 2012 to chase a dream she couldn't shake — buying this 101-hectare property, 32 of it under vine, and committing fully to bringing it back to life.
She didn't mess about either — organic conversion application went in the same month she took over, certification landed by August 2012. Her own words sum up the whole philosophy nicely: chemical industry might have made farmers' lives easier once, but for her, organic farming isn't optional, it's a necessity. Respecting the land is simply the obvious thing to do.
This is proper old Provence terroir too — Romans planted vines here, Gauls built villas and sacred sites on this same ground, troubadours sang about it. Emmanuelle's cuvées carry real soul because of it — Bois des Fées, a gold medal-winning rosé, Esprit Campanets and the flagship Tour Campanets bottling all showing what patient, principled farming can coax out of old Provençal land.
Beyond the vineyard, she's now president of Les Éléonores de Provence, a collective of vigneronnes and women entrepreneurs championing Provence's art of living. A genuinely inspiring pivot — trading contracts for vine rows, and clearly never looking back.
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