DOMAINE D'ESCAPAT

From Modo and Hammarby Domaine d'Escapat. From hockey Elite League to the world's largest wine region. This is the story of Bruno Ohlzon hockey hill that became a wine grower. His first career took place at hockey rinks. In Djurgården's youth academy, in Tibro and Nynäshamn's div in-law, in the Elite League with Modo and Hammarby. - I was not a great player, says Bruno. - But I could adapt myself ... Like when he was in the midst of the elite career successfully combined the sport with full-ti... me launch Nynäs Tak, the company that marked the birth of the entrepreneur Bruno Ohlzons successful career. When Hammarby in 1985 went from Elitserien thought Bruno, it would be appropriate to wind down. It did not Tommy Boustedt, Hammarby's coach who knew where he had a back to nature. Bruno got the "freedom with responsibility & rdquo with his training. The team and on your own. - Fix a barbell for me! he urged their coach. It made Tommy Boustedt. And Bruno Ohlzon could do an eighth and final season of hockey kid. Bajen icon - he made a total of 177 league matches in the club - came back to his Hammarby, 2008, when he was a founding Bajen Fans IF. 51 years old, he made 16 matches in division 4. In the rink, it hurt to meet Bruno. Something that opponents were well aware. He was there just as devoted to his job, which he then with enthusiasm and enthusiasm conducted their business at the side of the ice. Interests in wine took momentum with the wine agency that Bruno gained when he was in the 90s played hockey in Madrid. Then he became a Spanish champion in a team where even Kent Nilsson and ORVAR Tribe Bert included. - I did by the way, two goals in the final, he says. From Spain delivered when Bruno wines to premium Stockholm restaurants Bon Lloc, Lion Tower and the Grand Hotel. Via the first property and then the financial world, Bruno Ohlzon now again got into the wine business. At the farm Domaine d'Escapat outside the medieval city of Carcassonne which is visited by three million tourists a year, Bruno Ohlzon today several employees, including Christine who manages the office. There, wanders he was about not only among their vines with 14 different kinds of grapes but also among the bushes of lavender and blackberries and among trees with olives, plum, apricot and god knows what. the goal is clear: - I do not spank French with my wine but I'll show them that even a Swedish, dressed in jeans and t-shirt, can deliver. Domaine d'Escapat located at the village of Villeneuve-Minervois in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. Escapat owned and operated by former Swedish hockey player Bruno Ohlzon who saddled on to the wine grower. The estate is located in the Languedoc-Roussillon with its 300 000 hectares, currently the world's largest wine region. Languedoc-Roussillon stretches along the Mediterranean French south coast, from Provence to the Spanish border at Pyrenees. The landscape is not only beautiful, wild and spectacular. The proximity to the sea and the mountains has its proper positive impact on the wine's character. In addition, the weather is clearly a Languedoc-advantage. With 300 days of sunshine per year feel the grapes much safer here than in, for example, Bordeaux and thanks to the southern latitude, the temperature is too high during much of the year.