Thierry Tissot tells the story of his Mataret vineyard and the grapes he planted there.
One would be hard-pressed to find anyone as devoted to the concepts of sustainable and local as Thierry and Céline Tissot. Their vision is of a sustainable ecological future with a thriving local economy to pass on to their two children.
Their village, Vaux-en-Bugey, has been home to the Tissot family for a very long time. They are the fifth generation to work the vineyards in their bucolic sub-alpine setting. Until Thierry took over in 2000, wine was just one part of the family’s agricultural life, with a few hectares of vines planted around the village, as was common in rural French life.