GBS Team wine brand ! Passionate about wine, travel, culture, and people, we are the French trio behind FRENCH CONNECTION. Florian and Matt have been friends for the best part of 20 years, and a shared love of wine brought us to Nathan, that Florian met through Viticulture and Oenology courses in 2022.

As an airline pilot, Florian is an avid traveller spending each week in different parts of the world. Nathan is the head sommelier in a chain of Parisian luxury establishments. Beyond our shared passion to discover great wines, the dream was always there to produce our own wines. In 2023, the opportunity presented itself to partner with Olivier Faucon, a remarkable winemaker from Terrasses du Larzac PDO, to produce wines from Languedoc terroirs that we love.

Our dream could finally see the light with the FRENCH CONNECTION brand. Our wines are designed for the American market. They are filled with a real sense of place and connect our native Languedoc with California, their land of adoption.

As a wine is above all made to be drunk, we are strong supporters of the drinkability a wine can offer. We produce wines from altitude terroirs (1000 ft), refreshed at night by cold katabatic winds from the neighboring mountains. This is reflected in the glass by freshness, purity, and terroir expression. Our wines are designed for pleasure and emotions.

Driven by the desire to make wine accessible to everyone, we developed a marketing concept with Niko Toncé (@toncer), a French graffiti artist with an international reputation, to create a line of really good, fun, and extremely drinkable wines!

For our first vintage, we produced two wines: a Languedoc style fresh and fruity rosé, born and raised in clay amphorae to reveal its full potential; and a very fine Terrasses du Larzac PDO wine from altitude vineyards, crafted for any occasion as it combines freshness and drinkability with a genuine terroir expression.

These two handcrafted wines with their unique labels and cool vibes will bring everyone together!