🧀Producers and tastings in Auvergne

Mur-sur-Allier

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Craft brewery in Mur-sur-Allier, facing the Chaîne des Puys: ten beers on draught at the taproom, and a range brewed with malts and hops from the Puy-de-Dôme.

Albepierre-Bredons

Salers

Issoire

Family cheese and dairy shop in Issoire since 1961, with its own maturing cellar on site and its house raw-milk cheese, the Yssoirien.

Murat

Cheese shop and regional-produce grocer in Murat: Salers AOP tradition, farmhouse Saint-Nectaire, Salers cow saucissons (dry sausages) and ready meals.

Saint-Nectaire

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• With the family

Aurillac

The first Maison du vin of Desprat Saint Verny, in Aurillac: its own Auvergne wines, wines from France and elsewhere, spirits.

Le Puy-en-Velay

Wine and spirits shop in Le Puy-en-Velay: more than 600 wines, nearly 300 spirits and tasting classes.

Saint-Nectaire

Goats and dairy cows at Freydefont: farmhouse Saint-Nectaire AOP (protected designation of origin), goat's cheeses, and a self-guided visit to see the cheesemaking and the milking.

Clermont-Ferrand

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A Clermont confectioner since 1880. Auvergne pâtes de fruits (fruit jellies) and candied fruits, sold direct at the factory.

Vichy

Vichy's market hall: more than a hundred traders, craftspeople and producers under one roof. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 07:00 to 13:00.

Saint-Bonnet-de-Salers

Raw-milk Cantal AOP bought at the source, at the Emparrage cheese dairy. A viewing gallery above the workshop and a maturing cellar.

Yssingeaux

Clermont-Ferrand

• With the family

A wine shop and delicatessen in the heart of Clermont. 600 wines and fresh truffle in season, with the wine merchant's advice.

Aurillac

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Local producer in Aurillac. Tour, tasting, direct sales on site.