Born in Quimper in Brittany, Françoise is a Bretonne through and through. Having graduated in English and with a diploma in assistant management, Françoise took the plunge in the job market working as marketing and sales assistant at two companies.

Then, in 1999, her husband was relocated to Bordeaux, and Françoise followed him. Her excellent English enabled her to further her studies in assistant management, this time for the wine sector. She met Stéphane and Christine in 2005 through a mutual contact, and from that moment the adventure began.

Extremely versatile, Françoise works meticulously and with an elegant discretion in the running of the administrative and financial side of Derenoncourt Consultants.

Her readiness to respond promptly and her past and present knowledge of the team have made her a pillar of the company.

She’s a keen fan of Loire Valley white wines and also of wines made with the Greek grape Assyrtiko.

And she often treats the office to her very home-made Breton pancakes! Françoise is based at the Sainte Colombe offices.

Originating from Saint-Emilion, Céline has a BTS diploma in management accounting and has looked
after the Derenoncourt Consultants books since 2009.

A self-starter and versatile, she appreciates the diversity of client profiles and the different accounts
she is in charge of. Big-hearted and a keen follower of music, she is also a fan of rugby and horseriding.

She loves to travel (without her calculator) and tries to get to know as much of the world as she can.

Always ready to lend an ear to the members of the team, which she describes as multi-faceted and
dynamic, she works her way rigorously and painstakingly through the different periods of the tax year.

Fond of fine-dining, Céline’s favourite food and wine pairing is lemon meringue tart with a lateharvested Riesling.

She is based at the Sainte Colombe offices.

Originating from Sainte Croix du Mont in Gironde, Léo is a qualified viti-vini engineer and oenologist and has been a member of the Derenoncourt Consultants team since 2015.

Ever curious by nature and reserved, he particularly enjoys discovering new wine regions through his job, following training ourses that offer different experiences of places, and taking part in the constant exchange of views
expressed among the team.

He believes that the strength of Derenoncourt Consultants lies in its ability to make global assessments and to ensure a necessary sense of perspective for the wine estates’ technical personnel.

After football training or a spot of surfing, Léo likes to relax with a good meal, such as roast chicken washed down with a glass of Barsac.

He is especially fond of wines made with the Gamay grape with its spicy terroir expression, and in his job he enjoys adapting to the various different ways of vinifying and ageing wines.

He advises wine estates in the Médoc, the Graves region, Lussac Saint-Emilion, Bergerac, Gaillac and in Burgundy.

Born in Bordeaux, Loïc is a pure product of the Bordeaux terroir. He has a degree in agricultural engineering and oenology and joined Derenoncourt Consultants in 2021 after a few experiences in California and Bordeaux.

Dynamic and pragmatic, he likes to propose solutions tailored to the estates he works with, and enjoys being involved in the overall vision of the properties and following the entire cycle, from vine to bottle.

According to Loïc, the strength of Derenoncourt Consultants lies in its vision and philosophy. The consultants work first in the vineyard and then in the cellar, taking the quality of the soil as their starting point.

He has a weakness for Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux is his favourite wine region for its diversity of terroirs and for the overall quality of its wines.

After a game of field hockey, Loïc enjoys a freshly-caught sea bass with a white Pessac-Léognan.

He advises estates in Bordeaux, Cahors, Turkey, Romania and Belgium.

This agronomic engineer from the Landes region south of Bordeaux cut her teeth in the Rhône Valley before returning to the Bordeaux region in 2012.

She works with very different vineyards on missions relating to phyto-sanitary protection and vineyard fertilisation. With an acute understanding of clean farming and bio-dynamic practices, she joined the team in 2016 to offer advice to wine estates on phyto-sanitary protection.

Her open-mindedness and passion are key traits in performing her job, and in 2020 she ran the Derenoncourt Environnement project, a challenge she rose to with enormous enthusiasm.

Pauline is particularly fond of the Sancerre region with its vertiginous slopes and its mosaic of terroirs.

Her favourite food and wine pairing is Chablis with young Beaufort cheese. She works in the Bordeaux, Loire and Rhône Valley regions.

Originating from Paris, Céline studied Information & Communication at the Sorbonne and discovered the world of wine while working at a specialised press agency. After seven years managing projects in the Rhône Valley, her adopted region, Céline chose to change course and met the team at a very conventional interview in Bordeaux in 2017.

What followed was less conventional. Open-minded and creative, Céline was offered the job of running the company’s communication and events programmes, ably supported by Marie-Charlotte. The two of them proved to be a dynamic duo. With ideas soon flooding in, events such as tastings, cultural excursions and meals with friends quickly filled up the diaries.

Always smiling and fond of the good things in life, Céline is constantly thinking about the next projects. She is based at Sainte Colombe but is often on the road, too.