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 asWorld of Fine Wine,Wine Spectator,DecanterandVigneronamongst others.4 Seasons in the Côte Chalonnaiseis his second volume of wine photography followingUne Année en Cortonpublished 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 forDe la Condition d’Écrire, an essay defending literature and the French language. He also received the Press Correspondent Prize for work in the journalsLe Progrès, Le Journal de Saône-et-LoireandLe Bien Publicin April 2016. The literary critic for a regional journal and correspondent forLe Journal de Saône-et-Loire, in 2017, he wrote the bookVoyage entre Saône et Loire,an atmospheric account of a journey through the region.

‘Wyand has spent two years documenting the Côte Chalonnaise in the most breathtaking detail – raw, elemental, visceral, haunting, reassuring…Like a poet, he’s turned the mundane into brilliant beauty …’
Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com

‘4 Seasons in Côte Chalonnaise conveys an intimate and inclusive sense of the region and the connection between its people and the land.’
Anthony Rose, The World of Fine Wine

’Wyand’s photos bring the region to life…’
Wine Spectator

‘…there’s a whole lot of joy in these pages, it’s rather infectious.’
Amanda Barnes, The Circle of Wine Writers