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 […]
Author: Marie-Pierre Dardouillet
#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 […]
#12 Interview with Ying Tan, Master of Wine
The title of Master of Wine inspires respect and admiration in the wine world. When I met Ying for the first time, he didn’t mention it. We were having dinner at La Dilettante in Beaune with Marie and Sébastien, friends from Les chambres de l’Imprimerie. Discret, humble, smiling behind his round glasses, he was taking […]
#11 Interview avec Solenn Génot
Cette semaine avec le #collectif21, je vous emmène dans le Roussillon avec Solenn et Dominique Génot au Mas Llossanes. Après 10 années passées en Toscane à Caiarossa (magnifique domaine en biodynamie), ils décident de se lancer dans un domaine qui soit en accord avec leur choix de vie et leurs valeurs. Le domaine du Mas […]