Côtes de l'Auvergne – portraits from this week's trip

Le Puy de Dôme – the region's icon

L'Auvergne en Eruption

This week we spent a very interesting and useful three and a half days in the Auvergne visiting producers and getting a better handle on the area – the terroir, some of its producers and catching some of excitement of the renaissance of this now small wine region but which towards the end of the 19th Century was hugely important.

I will be publishing a number of posts over the next few days but here is a series of portraits of the people we met during our stay and who made us so welcome.

Wednesday afternoon:

Yvan Bernard, Montpeyroux

Thursday:

Léa Desprat, Desprat Saint-Verny

Pierre Desprat, Desprat Saint-Verny

Pierre Goigoux, Domaine de la Croix Arpin, Châteaugay

Etienne Rachez, business partner with Pierre Goigoux

  Gilles Vidal, Saint-Georges-sur-Allier –

an associate with Desprat Saint-Verny

President of Syndicat AOC Côtes d’Auvergne

Pierre and Léa Desprat

Friday:

Laure Cartier, Domaine Miolanne, Neschers

Annie Sauvat, Boudes

David Pelissier, Boudes

Saturday morning: 

Benoît Montel, Riom