interview with Marie-Françoise Audoin

Your favourite quality in a woman

Sincerity, rigour, loyalty, perseverance are qualities that I particularly appreciate in men and women… The elegance and authenticity of feelings, what we are also searching for in tasting… a search for balance and harmony.

Your best wine-related memory

I like experimental wines but authenticity and the respect of "terroir", the varietals and the vintage are essential. I despise the overall taste and lifestyle homogenization. The style of a wine should correspond to its region of origin. It is forbidden to misuse such an exceptional grape variety as Pinot Noir for instance. Every year, nature shows a new face, a magnificent one as usual, just take a walk through the vineyard in June. If I could paint a picture of this happiness, with its smells, its aromas, its changing colours.

Your favourite wine/wine producing area

The Marsannay area deserves the recognition of a Premier cru rank for its vineyard plots on the mid-slope, same for the rest of the area ; Amongst reds I have a little preference for our Marsannay "les Favieres", a very fruity wine which competes with our spicier Clos du Roy, but a young Marsannay white or rosé gives me lot of pleasure thanks to its aromatic elegance.

Your motto or favourite quote

Women are the future of men.