43°54′11″N 5°12′46″E / 412 m

Clos du Signal

A working farm before it was a classroom, and still more the former than the latter. Eighteen hectares under vine on the north face of the Luberon, a stone mas from 1782, and eleven beds. Members come for ten days at a time.

Local time: --:-- CET
Nearest: Gordes, 11 km
Under vine: 18.4 ha
Beds: Eleven, never twelve

Lavender rows running to a Romanesque stone abbey with cypress on the hillside behind, Luberon. — **Pl. II** Parcel C, Mourvèdre, planted MMXI Eleven kilometres from Gordes, facing north

§ I

The property

Bought in year three. Paid for in year six.

We bought it with retained earnings, not a raise, and we say so because the number matters more than the view. It is a member asset. Nobody at Wifi Wealth owns a holiday home paid for by your subscription.

Commune: Vaucluse, Provence
Elevation: 412 m, north face
Soil: Clay-limestone, galets
Varieties: Mourvèdre, Grenache, Cinsault
Farming: Organic since MMXVII
Yield: 28 hl/ha, deliberately low
The mas: Built 1782, roof 2021
Table: Seats sixteen, outside
Pool: 24 m, unheated, cold

A cantilevered modernist residence above an infinity pool at dusk. — **2019**Eleven rooms added to the south of the mas. Concrete, glass, no reception desk.

A Burgundy glass and decanter with service temperature annotations. — **Cellar**Roughly 4,000 bottles. About 300 of them ours.

Survey map showing the estate parcel between the Luberon ridge and the coast. — **Parcels**Six blocks. C and D are the ones worth arguing about.

A long table laid for sixteen on a terrace at night under strung lights. — **Every night**One table, sixteen seats, no phones. Attendance is not optional.

§ II

A day, in full

It is not a retreat. There is homework.

People arrive expecting a spa with a wine list. By the second morning they have secateurs in their hands at seven and a deal memo due at four. Almost everyone asks to come back.

See the residencies

06:15 Cold pool, then the hill. Four kilometres, uphill both ways in memory. Iron

07:30 Breakfast standing up. Coffee. The day's parcel is announced. ·

08:00 Vines. Pruning in winter, canopy in summer, picking in September. Real work, in silence. Terroir

11:30 Wash. Change. You are expected to look like you took the afternoon seriously. Presence

12:00 Lunch outside. One glass, tasted, discussed, and not refilled. Terroir

13:30 The long block. Your numbers, your memo, your work, presented and taken apart. Capital

17:00 Free. Most people read. Some sleep. Two people always go back to the vines. ·

20:00 You cook. Rotating pairs, sixteen covers, no caterer, no exceptions. Presence

21:40 The table. This is the part everyone remembers and the part we plan least. ·

23:30 Plates cleared by the people who ate off them. Bed at the same hour as at home. Standard VII

§ III

Residencies

Four windows a year. Eleven beds each.

Open to every member, billed at cost and itemised. Travel is not included and we will not pretend otherwise.

Res. IFull

Taille

Late January. Pruning, in the cold, badly at first. The quietest and, most members say afterwards, the best one.

X days / 22 to 31 January

Res. II 2 beds

Fleur

Late May. Flowering, long light, the first swim you don't have to be brave about.

X days / 21 to 30 May

Res. III 5 beds

Vendange

September. Harvest. Fourteen-hour days, purple hands, and the single best table of the year on the last night.

X days / 08 to 17 September

Res. IVWaitlist

Assemblage

November. Blending, tasting, and the annual review: your four numbers, twelve months on, in front of everyone.

VIII days / 12 to 19 November

Side elevation of a long-bonnet grand tourer in a lit garage.

Pl. IV Side elevation

§ IV

The garage

Three cars. Driven to Nice and back, not filmed in a car park.

There is a garage under the new wing with three grand tourers in it, and members may take them out. This is the most obviously indulgent thing we own and we are not going to be coy about it.

The rule is the only one that matters: you take it somewhere. The coast road at six in the morning, the Gorges du Verdon, dinner in Aix. Nobody has ever been allowed to photograph one in the drive and post it. That is not what they are for.

Standard, Article V, own the thing

Eleven beds, four times a year

Come and work
in the dirt.

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