Eric Texier

Eric is a trailblazer putting all the but extinct regions of Brézème and Saint Julien en Saint Alban on the map. He experiments with concepts you rarely if ever hear about elsewhere: finding acidity in Marsanne through anforas, not working the soil in favor of cover crops, “infusion” macerations, working on his own grafts, 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.

Eric produces a range of wines from different origins, mostly but not limited to the Northern Rhône.