Interview with Sylvaine Normand

How you expect a woman to be ?
Straightforward and joyful.

Your favourite occupation
Reading and being with family and friends.

Your finest moment in relation to wine
In Italy, Cinque Terre, on a terrace in the village of Vernazza overlooking the sea while tasting a Barolo Brunate 2006.

Your best wine-related encounter
When I met my husband Alain at the Lycée Viticole academy in Beaune and with whom we share our love for wine since 1991.

Your funniest story
The first time we participated in a wine fair: visitors asked us if they could taste our cider and calvados! Since then we have changed our way of communicating!

Your favourite wine
My heart stays in Burgundy but I do enjoy tasting other French and foreign wines.

Your motto or your favourite quote
Logic will take you from A to B but only imagination and courage will take you where you want.