The concept
Chai Saint Olive is Lyon’s first urban winemaking winery and is located at the heart of the 6th district of the city.
Urban winemaker, Chai Saint Olive is an urban winery that houses precision temperature controlled tanks and state-of-the-art winemaking facilities. From the reception of freshly pressed grape juice (also called must) to bottling, through ageing barrels, we produce hand-crafted wines on site.
All our wines are produced from 100% local grape varieties (Chardonnay, Viognier, Gamay and Syrah) thoroughly selected from 7 estates located as far as 80 kilometres from the Chai Saint Olive winery.
Chai Saint Olive is a real-life adventure punctuated by chance and long-standing encounters, including those of the Chai’s winegrower partners.
Our winegrower partners are true children of the land, passionate about their job and in love with their vines. They practice responsible winegrowing that respects nature and people.
Following this philosophy, Franck & Grégoire selected Chai Saint Olive’s winegrowers in the Rhône Valley with Jeanne Gaillard, Yves Cuilleron, Ludovic and Emmanuel Courbis and Eric Rocher as well as in the Beaujolais region with Viviane Tournissoux, Christophe Subrin and Hubert Cinquin.
Chai Saint Olive is also a unique and an atypical event venue dedicated to special themed tours, wine tastings and workshops, training courses, private and corporate events (seminars, team-building, board meetings, showrooms, birthday parties, hen and stag wine tasting events, etc).
Our wines are distributed at the following sites :
Restaurants : Agastache (Lyon 6e), Bouillon Baratte (Lyon 1er), Bouchon Palais Grillet (Lyon 2e), Cavatello (Corbas), Copain comme Canard (Lyon 3e), Epona, Hôtel InterContinental (Lyon 2e), Hôtel Kyriad Lyon Bron Eurexpo (Bron), Le Jean Moulin (Lyon 6e), Une Faim d’Apprendre (Lyon 9e), Retro Bistro (Lyon 5e), M Restaurant (Lyon 6e) and many more…
Wine merchants : Recoltant Manipulant (Lyon 1er), Aromo (Lyon 7e), Cave d’Or (Lyon 9e), Aux Caves de Charpennes (Villeurbanne), Cavavin St Georges (Lyon 5e), La Petite Cave d’Oullins (Oullins), Fromagerie Beillevaire, Les Halles de Lyon (Lyon 3e) and many more…
Export : UK exclusive distributor : Wanderlust Wine, Denmark exclusive distributor : WineAdvisor, Switzerland : Wii & Guss
Welcome to Chai Saint Olive
Our main activity: urban winemaking
Discover an event space
Diner sitted room
Modular meeting room
Wine assembly workshop
Barrel ageing of our urban wines
Our e-shop
Have a look around and find:
> urban wines from our Chai Saint Olive urban winery
> wine tasting sessions
> wine accessories
> and a selection of our partner grape producers, etc.
Click on the button below and have a good stroll (but beware that our e-shop is in French).
Les actus
Chai Saint Olive Story & Team
Driven by the same passion for wine, we created our own wine production in 2014 with our first brand name : Saint Olive Frères®.
Matured and bottled by our partner winemakers, our Côtes-du-Rhône, Crozes Hermitage and Côtes-de-Provence wines are distributed mainly to individuals, restaurants and wine shops in Lyon and its region.
Based on this experience and through fortunate meetings along the way, we wanted to bring wine production to the city.
So we worked on this pioneer project and developed a unique concept in Lyon, that of a urban winemaking in our hometown.
First of all, what is a Chai? The word “Chai” in French refers to the place where all the winemaking stages take place. It is a wine storehouse, a winery. And in France, those wineries are usually located on wine estates far from city centres.
In recent years, urban wineries have emerged in cities such as New York, London and Paris. They have been very successful. It is how we developed the idea of creating the first urban winery in Lyon in a desire to introduce city dwellers to wine production methods.
After three years of work, Chai Saint Olive was born on September 1, 2020 in the heart of Lyon’s 6th arrondissement.
We are happy to welcome you inside our Chai Saint Olive to discover our urban wines 100% made in Lyon and made with love, including those of our Saint Olive Frères brand as well as those of our partner winegrowers – Hubert Cinquin, Jeanne Gaillard, Christophe Subrin, Jean-Michel and Viviane Tournissoux, Yves Cuilleron, Eric Rocher et Ludovic et Emmanuel Courbis.
You can come to visit our urban wine cellar, discover each stage of wine making, from the vine to the glass, and taste our urban wines with us and Marie, our cellar-master.
You are one click away from visiting the first urban winery in Lyon !
Franck & Grégoire.
Franck
Grégoire
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Medias talk about Chai Saint Olive
Podcast (in French) / Interview with Franck Saint Olive
Lyon Première31/08/2020
Le premier Chai Saint Olive urbain a ouvert ses portes à Lyon
Le Progrès13/09/2020
Chai Saint Olive: Du vin made in Lyon!
BFM TV Lyon14/09/2020
Le premier Chai urbain de Lyon vient d'ouvrir ses portes
Lyon Mag15/09/2020
Le premier Chai Saint Olive urbain a ouvert ses portes à Lyon
Lyon Plus15/09/2020
Chai Saint Olive
La Tribune de Lyon17/09/2020
Lyon ouvre son premier chai urbain
Aujourd'hui en France25/09/2020
Un premier chai de vinification urbain a ouvert en plein cœur de Lyon
20 Minutes.fr29/09/2020
LYON ABRITE SON PREMIER CHAI
Tout Lyon Affiches17/10/2020
Rencontre avec Franck Saint Olive, co-fondateur du Chai Saint Olive, au cœur de Lyon
Agri City Info27/01/2021
A Lyon 6e, le Chai Saint Olive prend de la bouteille
Le Progrès20/09/2021
Vinifier en plein cœur de Lyon
L’Express Hors-Série (été 2022)01/06/2022
Chai Saint Olive : un chai au cœur de Lyon
Egolarevue02/06/2022
Comment est né le Chai Saint Olive ?
Tanin Magazine02/06/2022