What connects a US rock star to a Southern French winemaker? In the case of Jon Bon Jovi and Gérard Bertrand quite a lot. For example, both started their careers in the same year. When the band Bon Jovi released their first studio album in 1984, Gérard Bertrand began as a rugby player of the Racing Club de Narbonne Méditerranée. And while the band made the stadiums musically boil, Bertrand thrilled the fans of Narbonne and later Paris with his talent for the competition. When bandleader, solo artist, film and TV actor Jon Bon Jovi became co-founders of the American Football League, Gérard Bertrand was already a dedicated full-time winemaker, who also ran a jazz festival every year at his Château lHospitalet winery.