1 Michelin star restaurant in Loire-Atlantique
A chef mad about wine
Not a sommelier but passionate, Ludovic Pouzelgues has honed his palate on the blade of tastings and encounters.
Years spent travelling the vineyards of the Loire and the great French terroirs to understand wine in the vineyard, in the grape variety, in the cellar and above all in people's hearts.
Behind every bottle selected, there is a story of people and friendship. A free-spirited drinker, his quest doesn't stop at labels. A hunter of aromas, he has a soft spot for artisan wines, raw talents, farmer-winegrowers who bring terroirs and appellations back to life, like Muscadet, once disparaged and now recognised.
Perfectly attuned pairings: at LuluRouget, 1 Michelin star restaurant in Loire-Atlantique, wine extends the cuisine.
Conceived at the same time as the dishes, it contributes to the aromatic balance. Umami and fullness.
A house of winegrowers
A cage of glass and wrought iron, tilted like the buildings of Nantes' Feydeau district, LuluRouget's wine cellar draws you in like a magnet.
At the heart of the restaurant, it makes you thirsty before you have even cast a curious eye over the wine list. On the shelves, 350 signature wines and a good fifty more ageing, many of them organic or biodynamic, deeply rooted in the Nantes vineyards. Gems abound: an army of winegrowers' bottles, wines of terroir, love and conviction that tell of granite, gabbro, schist and gneiss subsoils, and of the salty air blowing in from the Atlantic.
A travel journal of the Loire country, Lulu's selection stops off at the bedside of Muscadet and Folle Blanche from the Pays Nantais. Committed to terroir and to its convictions, yet open-minded, it also flirts with other French wine regions, always on the lookout for fine aromatic lacework, wherever passion takes root.
Living and constantly evolving, LuluRouget's cellar gathers the good without distinction, from little-known artisans to more established estates. A house of winegrowers, a teller of stories and emotions.
