Tea is a bit like wine (perhaps without the heady effect!): a plant, terroirs, harvests, production know-how linked to a cultural heritage, tasting rituals and a sensorial perception to explore. While going to buy Genmaicha green tea, my Madeleine de Proust with its subtle notes of puffed and grilled rice, I met the founder of […]
Author: Marie-Pierre Dardouillet
#16 Interview with Gianpaolo Girardi, Trento
“When you taste a wine, just saying “I like it or I don’t like it” is very simplistic. On the other hand, when we try to dig into what is behind the taste, the history, the work, the people behind this wine, tasting then takes on a whole new meaning. “ Meeting people inspires, arouses […]
#15 Interview with Nicolas Thienpont, Saint-Emilion
What was the trigger to return to family property? I wanted to leave the metal industry where I was in charge of HR for personal reasons. The decision to polyculture at Château Puygueraud came quite naturally. I had known my father to do this and that’s also when we decided to replant vines. At the […]
#14 Interview with Guillaume Lavollée, Meursault, Bourgogne
Can you introduce yourself and explain your background to us? I met Aude, my wife, in 2006 and one day my father-in-law, director and owner of Domaine Génot Boulanger in Meursault, offered to join him first to help him sell the estate’s wines. From the first year, I resumed technical studies in wine in Beaune […]
#13 Interview with Manu Harit
I am not a cigar smoker but I have always been interested in the hedonist process of smoking a cigar. I must admit that my feeling of being a free woman of character attracts me to enter in a world that was in the past reserved to men. I had the chance to meet Manu […]