THE STORY A third-generation winemaker, Bernard first worked with his brother Jo at the family estate located in the heart of the Muscadet Sèvre & Maine appellation. In 2002, he invested further north in the « Côteaux de la Loire » and « Côteaux d’Ancenis » appellations and created Domaine Landron [...]

HISTORY The estate was founded in 1984 by Didier Montchover, a regional pioneer in organic and biodynamic farming. Boris Champy, an enthusiastic and experienced winemaker with previous positions in several prestigious estates in Burgundy, took over in 2019His aim is to make the superb, still relatively unknown Hautes-Cotes region a household name, [...]

L’HISTOIRE Après la destruction des oliviers par le gel de l’hiver 1956, la vigne a remplacé les arbres dans cette région. Valérie Chaume-Arnaud a toujours voulu être viticultrice. Après des études d’œnologie et de viticulture, elle s’installe donc en 1987 au domaine de ses parents qui pratiquent encore la polyculture. Elle [...]

THE STORY Domaine Roche Audran came into being in 1998, when Vincent Rochette built a cellar in a shady corner of the Buisson vineyards, where his family had grown vines for five generations, but had always sold the harvest to the local winegrowers cooperative.The 32 hectares of the estate, with vines varying in age [...]

THE STORY Domaine Laougué, in the Gers region, belongs to the Dabadie family, who for many years carried out mixed farming. When Pierre Dabadie took over from his father in the eighties, he decided to specialise in wine production : he extended the vineyards, built a new cellar and evolved toward [...]

THE STORY The story of Domaine de Ménard starts in 1920, when Jean François Morel, a Swiss winegrower, settled in Gascony and acquired a 10 hectare estate. His daughter & son in law took over in 1960, extended the vineyard and built their first cellar. The love of vine and wine was [...]

THE STORY Château les Arromans was founded in 1965 by Jean & Sylvette Duffau, who were among the first in the region to bottle and sell their own wine, which they sold exclusively to private individuals, who became loyal clients thanks to the quality and reputation of the wines produced at the [...]

THE STORY Joël Duffau comes from a long line of winegrowers – nine generations! With that kind of heritage, his destiny was almost preordained… and so it was that after studying oenology in France and abroad, he founded the Chateau la Mothe du Barry vineyards in 1985. The estate is located in [...]

THE STORY For many years, the family run Clos Lapeyre was given over to mixed farming (livestock, fruit and grapes for the local wine-growers cooperative), until Jean-Bernard Larrieu (3 rd generation), having recently graduated with a degree in viticulture/oenology, took over. From 1985 on the estate specialized in winegrowing, with Jean-Bernand [...]

THE STORY The Domaine Rotier story starts back in 1975, when Alain Rotier’s parents bought the vineyard which had been practically abandoned, with the intention of bringing the estate back to life. Alain joined forces with them in 1985 and decided to leave the winegrowers cooperative and build a cellar on the estate. [...]