Bugey François Grinand
François Grinand La Vigne du Perron, is located in a garage about fifty meters from the town square of Villebois; his duty is to keep alive the vineyards slope and the heritage of his village's. François is a piano teacher with a Conservatoire degree; in his late twenties decide to study wine at Macon Uni. He always enjoying working with his father on their tiny family vineyard in the north of Bugey. After visiting Marcel Lapierre he realise the traditional method of working and making wines in Beaujolais were more or less how his family had always made wines and decide that was the path to follow not what he learn in Macon école. Monsieur Grinand he rent some vineyards between Villebois and Groslée village's to supplement the family holding, also he decide to make wines without sulphur. During his first vintages something was not as he wished, so in 1996 asked for a help and with the advice of a consultant he used cultured yeast and added So2; but right afterward