A Bordeaux native who has lived in or around Lyon since 1979, Eric is a jovial, energetic and fun-loving person who just wants his wines to make people happy. But he is also a boundary pusher, endlessly questioning his work (and let's be honest, the work of others) for the sake of moving viticulture and winemaking forward. He experiments with concepts one rarely, if ever, hears about elsewhere: finding acidity in Marsanne through anforas, not working the soil in favor of cover crops, “infusion” macerations, working on his own grafts, and rediscovering forgotten grapes adaptable to the very real threat of climate change.

He originally became a winemaker after a first career as an engineer in the nuclear industry and without any family background in vines or wines. As such, his goals and methods developed not so much from his years of schooling, but from his readings, his visiting winemakers around the world, and working in Burgundy with Jean-Marie Guffens at Verget. He started a small négoce where he selected particularly interesting vineyard plots worked by the sincere, hard-working farmers who grew the healthy grapes he wanted to buy and vinify. He rediscovered nearly forgotten areas of ancient fame, like Brézème in the northern Côtes-du-Rhône, and nurtured relationships with people who tend their vines with passion and care. Over the years, the shift from négociant to vigneron has occurred, and today Eric owns and rents the vast majority of the vines that go into his production.