Millésime Bio – around the fair Monday

 Marc Vanhellemont – one of Les 5 du Vin

 Michel Smith – another member of Les 5 du Vin – 

with a good and inexpensive red from the Abbaye de Valmagne

 Rémi Bonnet, Bonnet-Huteau (Pays Nantais)

Bonnet-Huteau: their Muscadet Sèvre et Maine looking very promising – concentration and vivacity.  

 Jean-Jacques Bonnet, Bonnet-Huteau (Pays Nantais)

 Jean-Luc Danto

 Frédéric Sigonneau, Domaine de L'R (Chinon) 
searching for finesse rather than power

 Hamish Wakes-Miller makes a defiant last stand for the tie 

 Jérôme Bretaudeau, Domaine de Belle Vue (Pays Nantais)

Domaine de Belle Vue: 2014 Main-mian – good juicy easy drinking red from Cabernet Franc; 2014 Muscadets very promising with lovely textures and balance.

 Guillaume Pire, Château de Fosse-Sèche (Saumur)

Good 2013 Arcane Saumur Blanc much better than 2012 Eolithe Saumur Rouge. 

Sylviane Quenioux, Domaine de Veilloux (Cheverny)

Another example of a promising 2014: their Domaine white: 85% Sauvignon Blanc and 15% Chardonnay.

Millésime Bio: photos from First Day (27th January 2014)

Entrance to Millésime Bio@Montpellier 

 Inside Hall B2 - one of the three halls now used

Gilles Bonnefoy, Domaine de la Madone, Côtes de Forez

His 2013 Gamays are impressively good.

Unfortunately hit by hail in early August but autumn very dry

Thierry Amirault, Domaine des Quarterons – demonstrating

his green credentials by sporting an exotic headware!

+ a range of impressive 2012s

 Pascal Lambert, Chinon – above and below

 

 Loïc Mahé (Savennières) and his son (also below)

 Hilkka Chartier with Château de la Minière, Bourgueil

 Michel Bedouet and his wife, Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine

Frédéric Sigonneau, producer of fine Chinon 

(above and below)

 Adnams stalwarts: Alastair Marshall (above) and Robert Chase 

(looking very quizzically at a bottle)
Long-time fans of this fair, they were amongst the few UK merchants Present