Olivier Leriche leaves Domaine de l'Arlot

Winemaker Olivier Leriche has left Burgundy producer Domaine de l'Arlot.

Owned by the wine arm of insurance group AXA, Domaine de l’Arlot’s Olivier Leriche has resigned from his post to run his own estate in the Ardeche.

Leriche and his wife will now run Domaine des Accoles, near to Coux, 40 kilometres south-west of Valence. Leriche told decanter.com, ‘We have been lucky to find a very interesting vineyard with many vines more than 50-60 years old in the southern Ardeche. It’s a little known region but we have thought highly of it for several years.

‘We wish to work in the same spirit we have developed at l’Arlot: a sensitive approach to the vines – we have already started the conversion to biodynamics and will start applying the first biodynamic prepartions in autumn,’ he added.

Written by Rebecca Gibb

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Rebecca Gibb MW is a wine journalist and editor who has also founded Bamboozled games, ‘the world’s first wine and spirit puzzle makers’. Having spent six years living in New Zealand, she has recently returned to her native north-east England. While in New Zealand, she became a Master of Wine, graduating top of her class and winning the Madame Bollinger medal for excellence in tasting. A former winner of both the UK’s young wine writer of the year and the Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer, her first book The Wines of New Zealand was published in 2018. She also runs wine events and has her own consultancy business The Drinks Project. She was a judge at the 2019 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).