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It’s the end of summer, and harvest time has come. For several weeks, the pickers go to the vines to cut the bunches of grapes. Brut followed Mylie, to Vacqueyras, in the Vaucluse.
“This is the moment when we come to reap the fruit of a year’s work.” The harvest period has started almost everywhere in France. The opportunity for hundreds of seasonal workers to go to the vines and pick the grapes. This is the case of Mylie, 25 years old. A former education assistant, she is a harvester this year for the first time. “I really thought I was going to hurt all over, and finally not so much”, explains Mylie.
Within the group of pickers, good humor prevails. “You have a team that gets along well, quite funny”, describes Olivier Brès, winemaker in Vacqueyras. “I like people to be funny, but who still work and that the harvest is there and of good quality.”
A feeling shared by Mylie. “It’s not just about the job… There’s really this relational aspect which is ultra rewarding.“The seasonal workers live together near the site, in a camp, during the three weeks of harvest. “It really creates a summer camp atmosphere, because it remains a group and we get to know each other, there are links that are created. There is a mentality like that of sharing, of living together, of collective intelligence. And that’s really also what made me come here when I was told about it”, she confides.
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