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La Guinelle Vinegar Factory

The discovery of a know-how

Banyuls is well known for its wine, and from this also comes an excellent vinegar, made with passion and know-how in the cellars of Banyuls. It is in the vinegar factory of Nathalie and Adrien that we go to discover this nectar. At the end of a tiny road that winds between the vineyards of Cosprons, at the exit of Banyuls, we arrive at the Guinelle: it may seem far but it’s really worth it to go there and take the time to discover the place, the place is magical!

An atypical setting

for a unique product

When you arrive in this atypical place, you will discover a large pergola, under which are countless open barrels, covered with colored canvases in the evening. Behind, the glass barrels complete the landscape. It is here that Nathalie will explain how she makes her precious nectar, the Banyuls vinegar, starting by saying that “there is no good vinegar without good wine! It’s a good thing, in Banyuls, we know good wine! So, how do you make a good vinegar?

Why is it magic?

A visit made to measure by a passionate person
A moment out of time in an atypical place
The visit ends with a tasting

No good cellar visit without

... tasting !

Installed in the open air, the wine barrels wait patiently for nature to do its work, according to an exclusively natural process of acetic fermentation. Natural, without stirring or addition of bacteria, it allows to preserve the aromas of the wine, those which will make a tasty wine vinegar. Today, La Guinelle is the only company in France to produce all of its vinegars using this traditional method of making wine vinegar under a veil of bacteria, known as the Orleanaise method.

The visit ends with a tasting of vinegars, each one better than the other, with associations that only Nathalie has the secret of… But that she will gladly give you!

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There is no good vinegar without good wine! And the good wine, in Banyuls, we know it…

Nathalie
We tell you everything!

How to live this experience?

Vinaigrerie La Guinelle

Hameau de Cosprons
66660 Port Vendres