Alain Marty founded the Wine Business Circle in 1991. Today, it meets at Nantes and in 13 other towns  at France (Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse and Tours) and at International (Luxembourg, Barcelona, Madrid).

The Wine Business Circle continues 3 objectives : 

• Find the France's best wines and winemakers for dinners prepared by exceptional chefs
• Supporting loyalty, by allowing members to invite guests from outside the Circle to each evening (customers, prospective customers, journalists, VIPs, partners, etc.)
• Enablingbroaden your network of contacts meeting many French and international business leaders

Evening events in Nantes to theAtlantis 1874 around a wine tasting dinner, prepared by the Michelin-starred chef Jean-Yves Gueho (1*), trained in Alsace at the Auberge de l'Ill (2*), chef in New Orleans and Hong Kong. The chef's cuisine is very precise and refined, with a strong emphasis on fish.

Each Cercle de Nantes event hosts a winegrower and a personality (Rodolphe Delord, Vincent Guerlais, Christine Lagarde, Rodolphe Saadé, Christel Heydemann, Muriel Pénicaud, Matthieu Pigasse, Yannick Bolloré, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, Anne Lauvergeon, Natacha Polony, Jean-Marie Messier, Clara Gaymard, Jacques Attali, Laurent Dassault, Jean-Bernard Lévy, Rachida Dati, Pierre-André de Chalendar, Thierry Breton, Maxime Saada, Nicolas de Tavernost, Xavier Bertrand, Gilles Pélisson, Jean-Paul Agon, Pierre Gattaz, Arnaud de Puyfontaine, Thierry Marx, Frédéric Mazzella, Luc Ferry, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, Patrick Pouyanné...).

Planning 2025