The production of old-fashioned vinegar and mustard seed still alive in the Loire Valley!

In the cellars of Martin Pouret, in Fleury-les-Aubrais (Loiret), the vinegar still has the taste of the soil. This company of ten employees, founded in 1797, is the last one to perpetuate the tradition of vinegar of Orleans which goes back to the Middle Ages, when the wine followed the Loire before being unloaded and transported to Paris. Its bestseller remains the classic old-fashioned wine vinegar, but new vinegars are also developed using specific vines like chardonnay or merlot, or flavoured with Espelette pepper. The company also plays the diversification card by resuscitating missing agricultural sectors, like a 100% local mustard now produced by Val de Loire farmers that have been convinced to revive the growing of the mustard seed instead of importing it.