A beard of three days, dressed in his farmer's suit, Vincent Dureuil comes out of a restless night. Never so happy as in the middle of his vineyards, bathed in the mild April sun, this passionate worker displays the modest smile of a man who has just won a small victory over nature - and drawn features. While France lives confined to Covid-19 time, he has not slept for 24 hours. The threat did not come from the coronavirus, but from the frost, which could take away a year of hard work overnight.
From midnight, the weather stations installed on his plots began to beep the alerts on his smartphone. At 4 am, he led the commando operation with his wife and two children, lighting 700 candles in less than an hour to save his most fragile plots. The winter was too mild. The vegetation is precocious and the vines begin to bud. " On April 1 the plants were already like a 15
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