Interview with Chantal Martin

Your favourite quality in a woman
Open-mindedness. I admire the tireless character, determination, and the ability to move forward.

Your favourite activity
Reading ; spending time with the family; discovering, tasting and sharing good wines.

Your best wine-related memory
Family dinners with beautiful wines.

Your best wine-related encounter
hard to pick, I have many. A nice encounter, just as brief as memorable, with the sommelier Alain Ronzatti (Maison Michel Rostang, Paris) open-minded and passionate ; exceptionally courteous.

Your funniest anecdote
rather a tip of the hat to Ola Bergman, a suedish photographer, as one of the best website on Burgundy came out of her passion (www.bourgogne-info.eu).

Your favourite wine/wine producing area
I like to discover wines, their region and their producers… But I remain attached to Burgundy.  I like generous but delicate wines ; a Chambolle Musigny probably…

Your motto or your favourite quote
Here are some :“He who can taste, never drinks wine anymore but tastes secrets” S. Dali      “It’s because wine is a man’s creation that it is fragile, but always perfectible…” E. Peynaud

In a more straightforward style but with a hint of truth : “A wine must look like the place where it was born, and have the guts of the man who made it” J.Puisais.