In 2015, my parents visited Château l'Escarderie in Fronsac AOP, Bordeaux wine region.

Me and my husband, lovers of nature and good products, were overwhelmed by this beautiful place : 5 hectares of wine surrounded by woods, on a slope facing the Dordogne valley and the south, with mostly clay-limestone soil. We decided to participate in a family adventure of developing a range of red wines and bringing the property to life again. This property had been conducted in conventional agriculture and hadn't produced wine (only grapes for the coop cellar) for several years.

Now we produce craft wines in small quantities (max. 15000 bottles/year, some cuvées only 800 bottles). We do several cuvées of dry red wine, samples of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec grape varieties, and a rosé pet nat.

Our particularity is to harvest manually, to ferment with naturally present yeasts and to add as little sulfites as possible while guaranteeing a stable wine. Our wines are a tribute to traditional quality winemaking as well as resolutely modern in their making : only one of our wines is aged in oak barriques.

Ageing is done differently for each cuvee: oak barrique/amphora blend, 100% amphora/jar, modern micro oxygenated ovoid tank and classical concrete tank. Some cuvées are fermented integrally in terracotta jars or ovoid tank.

We have converted the property to organic since 2015 and work the soils partially with our two self-owned and self-tended draft horses : Saphir, Percheron gelding and Gitane, Belgian draft mare.

Also, aware of being situated in a Natura2000 area, we do our best to leave as little footprint as possible. The building being from the nineteenth century, we are currently renovating it to show its full beauty. We are very lucky to be able to work in such an environment.