‘It is true that geological, geographical and meteorological factors define and set the Côte Chalonnaise apart. But the region’s key asset is the quality of women and men dedicated to the vines. A real “Côte Chalonnaise spirit” exists: winemakers have faith in the potential of their Climats, which justifies the incredible efforts made over the last twenty years to produce fine wines and the pride that results from this. Jon’s talent perfectly captured this “spirit” in faces, landscapes and even through pure moments of silence which express truth much better than a writer’s words.’
Aubert de Villaine
Jon WYAND - Jon first set eyes on Burgundy while on a book assignment in 1979. Twenty years later after seeing the vineyards of Europe as well as South and North America, he chose to specialize and decided Burgundy suited him. Twenty years on and he is still coming, a multiple award winner for his work there and a regular provider to books and magazines such as World of Fine Wine, Wine Spectator, Decanter and Vigneron amongst others.
4 Seasons in the Côte Chalonnaise is his second volume of wine photography following Une Année en Corton published in 2015 and offers a different view on that friendly and beautiful part of the region where humour is never far away.
Emmanuel MERE is an award-winning journalist, essayist and public speaker. His work has won many prestigious awards including a Mâcon Academy award for De la Condition d’Écrire, an essay defending literature and the French language. He also received the Press Correspondent Prize for work in the journals Le Progrès, Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire and Le Bien Public in April 2016. The literary critic for a regional journal and correspondent for Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire, in 2017, he wrote the book Voyage entre Saône et Loire, an atmospheric account of a journey through the region.
