MARTIN POURET MAKES VINEGAR

236 Faubourg Bannier
45400 Fleury - Orleans
France
Tel : 0033 2 38 88 78 49
Fax : 0033 2 38 43 57 77

The great French gastronome Curnonsky wrote (in the series Recettes et paysages) – “N’oubliez pas que le vinaigre d’Orléans est sans rival!” – Do not forget that the vinegar of Orleans is unrivalled ! Now Martin Pouret is the last vinegar maker in Orleans and it seems the last in France to make vinegar entirely in wooden barrels
	The street Faubourg Bannier in the French city of Orleans begins near the station up away from the oldest part of the city beside the Loire.
At number 236, a modest sign marks the establishment of Martin POURET. Inside a small courtyard there is a clean, strong sweet smell of vinegar coming form one building.
The Orleans process as it has long been called inside and outside France is just the old way of letting wine ferment slowly into vinegar inside partly filled barrels. Slow, old fashioned methods do not fit easily into modern economy but Jean Francois Martin, 6^th generation, is convinced that the company has survived solely because of the merits of the product.