The estate’s history started in 1840.
Blue granite south facing vineyards gave the raw material
for magnificent fruity and generous Gamay wines.
Jean and Marie-Thérèse Lafont were the ones doing the entirety of the vine tending work.
Their son, Jean-Marc, joined them on the estate. His childhood was steeped in scents and fragrances as well as love for a job well done, taught to him by his parents.
Annick and Jean-Marc took over stewardship of the estate and reinforced their aim to tend the vines to craft top notch wines, while developing a strong brand image.
With passion and determination, they broke with the region’s mainstream methods and, from 1992, formalised their use of integrated, eco-friendly vine tending techniques, always aiming to strengthen their respect for their terroirs.
They equipped themselves with modern, high performance tools to fulfil their ambition: to offer wines that are faithful representations of each terroir the grapes come from.