Veronique Raskin grew up in the South of France where as a young girl she helped her grandmother tend her garden and her grandfather pick extraordinary fruits and vegetables, as the sweet perfume of wildflowers wafted across the meadows. The land was farmed as Mother Nature intended, using organic fertilizers and growing complementary crops in such a way as to not require chemical pesticides. She used to love watching her family’s horse pull a wagon brimming with Syrah, Cinsault and Carignane grapes from the vineyard to later be painstakingly fermented into the finest French wines. She grew up and away from …
