People

Unique, unconventional, curious about everything, Michel Chapoutier’s  mind has never been static. Michel is a wine-lover and life-lover, always on the move, so are his ideas, his tastes and his wishes. “If I stay still, I fall.” His wine journey began when he was 26 years old and he became the head of M. CHAPOUTIER. Yet, he is not an inheritor – his choices and his vision were disruptive as he stood up against the established ways and ideas, completely changing both viticultural and vinification practices of his family company. He is a man close to the earth, on a quest for revealing terroirs and finding the expression of soils through the taste of his wines.

Mathilde joined the family business in 2011. Whilst studying a Business degree in Beijing, she also worked as the Brand Ambassador for M. CHAPOUTIER. On her return home, she completed further business degrees and is now fully immersed in the running of the company alongside her father.