Professor of classical literature, and full member of the Académie du Vin de France and the Académie Internationale du Vin, in 2005, along with Thierry Desseauve, Michel Bettane created a company to inform and advise wine lovers in France and abroad. His freedom of thought and action, his pedagogy, the finesse of his palate and his remarkable gustative memory make him one of the world’s most recognized critics.