Woeful is the man who has to choose between rugby and beer, for the two are welded together and nothing can come between them. 

Still, that was the heavy choice Grégory Tapot had to make when he woke up one day, 40 years old, and thought “I need a big change.”

After many years in marketing in his native France, where he worked for L’Oreal, Coca-cola and other “big ones”, travelling all over the world, he wanted to do something he really loved and realised that, apart from his wife and two children, he only had two big loves: Rugby and beer. 

“It was hard! But as I was becoming a bit old for rugby, the choice made itself. Beer it was.” 

The family left France shortly after and set off for Mallorca where they found the perfect house in the idyllic, traditionally Mallorquin village Bunyola, a short car ride from Palma but largely unchanged for decades if not centuries. 

But watch out, there’s now a modern new kid on the block! For although beer has been around for a long time, Tapot has tapped into the zeitgeist of the microbrewery movement to create a truly modern brewery/gathering point in tiny Bunyola, and called it Cervezas Juntos, ‘beers together.’