Pierre Gaillard is a sunny and gregarious vigneron whose seriously dirty fingernails testify to his passion for his vines, though he's also a well-traveled connoisseur who can speak knowledgeably about California cabs and German Rieslings.
Like many local children, young Allen was brought up to speakGerman as well as English, and it may be because of those early links that he took an interest in how Europe's most industrialised country was dealing with the problems of the environment.