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.

Interview with Céline Robergeot-Cienki

How you expect a woman to be ?
A hand of iron in a velvet glove.

Your favourite occupation
Cooking for a meal with friends.

Your finest moment in relation to wine
A glass of champagne, deliciously cool and with aromas of acacia honey, drunk in the evening after a day working in the fields.

Your best wine-related encounter
Each time I meet people from the world of wine is a moment of pleasure and learning.

Your favourite wine
The Maury appellation.

Your motto or your favourite quote
As long as the door is not shut you can always slide in a foot.

Anything else to say ?
If you really want to know more about me, the door of my domain is wide open!.

Rencontre avec Ludivine Griveau-Gemma

La qualité que vous préférez chez une femme

Son franc parler.

Votre occupation préférée

Mes trois enfants.

Votre plus beau souvenir lié à une dégustation d'un vin

Dégustation de vieux millésimes aux côtés de Nadine.

Votre plus belle rencontre liée au vin

Il y en a plein, ils et elles se reconnaitront !

L’anecdote la plus drôle

C’est une histoire de couteau Suisse ! ...

Votre vin / appellation préférée

Corton et Corton Charlemagne.

Votre devise ou votre citation préférée

Plus vite, plus loin, plus fort.

Rencontre avec Une Telle

La qualité que vous préférez chez une femme

Son franc parler.

Votre occupation préférée

Mes trois enfants.

Votre plus beau souvenir lié à une dégustation d'un vin

Dégustation de vieux millésimes aux côtés de Nadine.

Votre plus belle rencontre liée au vin

Il y en a plein, ils et elles se reconnaitront !

L’anecdote la plus drôle

C’est une histoire de couteau Suisse ! ...

Votre vin / appellation préférée

Corton et Corton Charlemagne.

Votre devise ou votre citation préférée

Plus vite, plus loin, plus fort.

Interview with Elodie Roy

Your favourite quality in a woman
Honesty and a sense of humour.

Your favourite activity
Working in the field in a peaceful atmosphere ; spending time with my children ; cooking ; wine tasting .

Votre plus beau souvenir lié à une dégustation d'un vin
A Musigny 1976 vintage from Joseph Drouin, opened for a friend’s birthday. Superb !

Your best souvenir in relation to wine
Olivier Poussier (crowned  world’s best sommelier in 2000) when I was training  in 2006 with Cuisine et Vins de France : I was fortunate to taste wines with him on several occasions for the Vins de France wine guide and impressed by his friendly and open nature which helped me discover many different.appellations.

Your finest moment in relation to wine
After a hard day’s work on the estate where I was working in 2012 I brought home several bottles of wine which for the first time I wanted to give a taste to my daughter Lilly : so at 2 and a half years she tasted her first grand cru, a Clos de Vougeot and quite naturally remarked « its good, I like that ! » ; she then tasted a Richebourg appellation and said « I prefer the other one ! »

Your favourite wine
There are so many.

Your motto or favourite saying
Wherever you go, never forget from whence you came.

More personal information
I am always followed by my faithful companion, Disco, a Jack Russel 10 years old. 

Interview with Sophie Noëllat Sirugue

Your favourite quality in a woman
To know how to express one’s love : to give and to take

Your favourite activity
Spending time with my family ; cooking for family and friends

Your best souvenir in relation to wine
While studying commerce I was on a party visiting the château wine sites in the Bordeaux region and was able to taste some of the most famous names : Cos d’Estournel, Mouton Rothschild, La Mission Haut-Brion …

Your finest moment in relation to wine
The time when I met my winegrower-neighbour : he was to become my husband !

Your finest moment in relation to wine
When we open a bottle of wine, my 4 year old son likes to taste a drop on his finger and says « this must be father’s wine » and on tasting a second time, adds « no, this is my mother’s wine » !

Your favourite wine
Gigondas, wines with delicate and spicy aromas, coloured by the sun !

Your motto or favourite saying
Our land is not inherited from our ancestors but lent to us by our children.