You don’t come to Auvergne by chance. And experiencing this region is truly exciting. Here, tradition has real meaning; not the indulgence of looking back to the past, which has long been attached to the Auvergnat image, but showing that it is possible to live on this land and retain the desire to work well, respecting those who consume its fruits, sharing its tastes and quality.

The Saint-Nectaire cheese producing area extends into places unspoiled by mass tourism, today offering their most precious treasures: an environment of fresh air and billowing green pastures, where the eye, caught by the curves of the volcanoes, loses itself in the shimmering blue haze, and where the variety of the vegetation leaves you dazzled.

In the valleys around Besse, on the Cantal mountains or along the “couzes”, a superb natural environment remains available, letting you sense the mixture of fire and water, power and harmony, mystery and enthusiasm, in a wild palette of greens exploding before your eyes.

You can be carried away by the purity of the landscape, happy and glad to be in tune with well-preserved flora and fauna. Whether in the early morning, when the “puys” appear above a blanket of mist, in the middle of the day in a kaleidoscope of colours blending the vibrant yellow of the gentian, the billowing grasses and omnipresent natural green.

And when the reddening sun sinks to hide behind the Massif du Sancy, letting its rays graze over the stone walls of the “burons” bringing them alive, the cheese continues its slow ripening deep in the Auvergne soil.

You are in Volcano Country.

The heart of the Auvergne opens up to let you share in one of the most generous tastes of its “terroir”: Saint-Nectaire cheese.

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