For 5 generations we’ve been cultivating our vines from our farm situated in the little hamlet of Champvent, dependent on the municipality of Chardonnay.  So our 22 hectare estate mainly extends to the heart of the land of the village of Chardonnay of the ultra famous name.
In fact, this Mâcon village groups 3 dimensions under one name to discover and relish!

Chardonnay is well known to us because considered to be a registered trademark on the millions of bottles tasted in the four corners of the earth.  All of this wine comes from the most widespread white grape variety in the world.

Chardonnay is the name of a vine from Mâcon, it has furthermore been farmed in the village at least since the end of the 18th century.  Recognisable by its quinquelobated leaf, its compact berries with little spherical logs, amber yellow in colour and speckled on maturity, it offers us wines with a broad aromatic palette depending on the soil and how its grown.

Chardonnay is finally a village of Gallo-Roman origin whose name was definitively fixed in this graphic form in the 15th century.  While our distant ancestors were undoubtedly growing the vine long ago, the village’s wine-growing vocation was affirmed in the Middle Ages with the initiative of the bishops of Mâcon, of the influential nearby abbey of Tournus and powerful aristocrats as the archaeological ruins and the visible architecture are testament of, notably in the hamlet of Champvent. The authors of the Saône&Loire directory note for the year 1834 “that the white wines of Chardonnay are highly esteemed”.  In the beginning of the 20th century, armed with this reputation, the name of the village, centre of the production and proliferation of the plant with its numerous synonyms, ended up designing the grape variety now known on a global scale.

Consequently, our estate is proud to produce Chardonnay from the village of Chardonnay.