Organic Côtes du Rhône, drunk at the Cannes film festival and in Monaco

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Art Mas is a vineyard composed of of noble grape varieties, Grenache and Syrah grown in an organic manner oriented toward biodynamy. Xavier Combe describes himself as a winemaker artist. He has also been a partner in the evening launch of several films at the Cannes film festival and is supplier to the Principality of Monaco.

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Bread made from freshly grinded wheat forgotten varieties in a Palace

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Eric Frechon is reinventing bread craft, by making his own fresh flour every day from old varieties of wheat. At the restaurant Epicure, the Chef proposes engrain, emmer and spelt bread to the clients and is offering them the bread of their choice, when they leave the restaurant.

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The Chanel open-sky laboratory

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Chanel has set up an open-sky laboratory in Madagascar in 2002, to grow and study the Vanilla Planifolia. In 2010, the Maison opens a new botanical station in the southern French Alps, to rediscover medicinal plant sources forgotten since the second half of the 20 th century.

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Certified-organic coffee, manually cultivated on small plots

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Situated on the mountain plateau, the Araku valley in India is a protected natural reserve since 1995, reknown for its purity, biodiversity and fertility: the coffee plants are distributed over 520 villages.

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Mandarin Oriental Bodrum: ultra-luxurious eco-responsible hotel in the nature, with two private beaches in Turkey

MO-Bodrum-small.jpgLocated on the North shore of the Bodrum peninsula, the Mandarin Oriental is facing the sea. Surrounded by a pine and olive tree forest(*) of 60ha, the resort has two private beaches.

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