Steve GELLOT

Head sommelier : 1 restaurant Steve Gellot has been immersed in the restaurant business since childhood, and has discovered a passion for wine, which he passes on daily at the Anne de Bretagne restaurant in La Plaine-sur-Mer.

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Steve Gellot grew up with restaurant-owning parents in Cussay, Indre-et-Loire. when I was still a baby, my mother was struck down by an incurable disease that took her life when I was 10", he confides at . My father worked a lot in the family hotel-bar-restaurant and didn't necessarily have much time to devote to me on a daily basis. "

Fortunately, Steve Gellot 's grandparents were very much present, and this life in the country, in the fresh air, was a real outlet for the boy, who lovedfishing and was introduced to grape harvesting at a very early age by a neighbor of the family. "By the age of 3 or 4, I was already cutting bunches ofgrapes and able to cook myself an omelette. "

meeting the winemakers

as a teenager, Anne de Bretagne's future sommelier regularly helped his father at the Auberge du Pont restaurant. He went on to earn a BEP diploma in Tours, became an apprentice sommelier at La Roche Le Roy, a fine Touraine restaurant, and then joined Domaine de la Tortinière and its sommelier, whom he accompanied on visits to the winegrowers .

"I was really passionate, with a great thirst for learning. I was going to do the harvest at Trapet, I got interested in winemaking, I worked at a wine shop in Chamonix, then I was lucky enough to join the great Éric Beaumard at Le Cinq in Paris." He obviously learned a great deal from Beaumard, regularly accompanying him to the winegrowers. his English in a number of Australian restaurants, he joined Matthieu Guibert and his team at Anne de Bretagne where, since the beginning of 2022, he has held the position of head sommelier. "My whole life revolves around wine. With Émilie, my partner who works alongside me, we spend virtually all our vacations touring the vineyards, always on the lookout for new discoveries. We're truly passionate about what we do. "