Domaine Les Enfants Sauvages (translated as “wild children”) are Nicholas and Carolin Bantlin and their children Juri and Falk. Caroline Buntlin studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and after graduating she joined her husband's family's leather goods business.
In the mid-90s, after the birth of their first son Falk, they began searching for a cherished “country” house in the south of France, with the idea of moving part of the production there.
During one of their vacations, they met a Scot, Joanna, who had lived in the Fitou region for 25 years, and she helped them find a suitable home. For 3 years, the Buntlin family came there for the summer and only in 1998, almost immediately after the birth of their second son, they were shown a plot with vineyards and an old house, in an abandoned steppe towards the village of Opoul.
It was an isolated piece of land with an area of 7.5 hectares, in relatively good condition, and at the end of 1999 the decision was made to purchase this site.
In the mid-90s, after the birth of their first son Falk, they began searching for a cherished “country” house in the south of France, with the idea of moving part of the production there.
During one of their vacations, they met a Scot, Joanna, who had lived in the Fitou region for 25 years, and she helped them find a suitable home. For 3 years, the Buntlin family came there for the summer and only in 1998, almost immediately after the birth of their second son, they were shown a plot with vineyards and an old house, in an abandoned steppe towards the village of Opoul.
It was an isolated piece of land with an area of 7.5 hectares, in relatively good condition, and at the end of 1999 the decision was made to purchase this site.
