This man of character, his skin tanned like leather by the great outdoors, forged ahead towards empirical learning to gain all the knowledge he now possesses. He has worked, observed, tasted and discovered vines and wines thanks to his wide-ranging experience in diverse appellations. “Terroirs” and tradition are concepts that fascinate him. He draws his inspiration from the Burgundian model of wine-making, bases his ideas on minerality and acidity to develop his own more intuitive and less systematic working methods. Wine is an encounter; it speaks of the men and women who make it.
His approach is full of common sense, with great respect for a manual profession where every detail is clearly understood and taste is used for making key decisions. He produces wines he loves to drink and share.

In 1999, Stéphane and his wife Christine purchase a property named Domaine de l’A in the Côtes de Castillon appellation. At the same time, he begins to set up “Vignerons Consultants”, a business that expands rapidly thanks to the success of the wines for which he provides his consultancy services. They are not Derenoncourt wines; each on has its own identity.
These days, Derenoncourt Consultants is primarily about team work. Young oenologists recruited freh out of university will discover vine work and develop this business in the regions of Bordeaux, the Thône, Provence, the Loire, the Lot, the South West, Languedoc, Roussillon and Burgundy, as well as in many other countries around the world, by proposing an approach to wine where every living element is taken into account and where every detail is closely linked.