APPEARANCE SO SIMPLE BY OLIVIER: Since choosing to be a winemaker, and then to make wine, our desire was and remains to make wine as simply as possible: to let the grapes we have cultivated throughout the year speak for themselves.

This seemingly simple, self-evident desire, perpetuating the work of generations of winemakers who came before us, has clashed with the recent history of the vineyard. What has been called modernization. From this, we have adopted what seemed relevant to alleviate this arduous and demanding work, and to gain precision. But we have rejected anything that, in our view, could trivialize the origin of our grapes, such as "correcting" the harvest, adding yeast, cold stabilization, filtration, and massive doses of sulfites. And I'm sure I'm forgetting some... It is on this desire and these choices that we have been criticized. Our work aims to bring the grapes to full maturity, then to harvest them by hand, and the resulting juices ferment and produce the wine of the year without any additives. It will be aged for twelve to sixteen months, depending on the vintage, and bottled without fining or filtration (with rare exceptions due to residual sugars). Our vines have been cultivated officially according to organic farming standards since 2005. Consequently, we use sulfur and copper as precisely as possible, along with plant extracts. Our goal was to be winemakers and offer you authentic and as healthy wines as possible. This has been possible thanks to you, our followers, and to journalists who have highlighted our work. MAKING WINE LIKE TELLING A STORY BY ALICE: Ideally, we'd start with a blank page every year, blank pages every year, one for each vine. But the actors are already there: the vines, which never change location and in which we always have the same feelings when we go to work, like relationships with colleagues, colleagues who have their own personalities and quirks that don't easily change. And the weather, never the same from one year to the next, like a star with its whims. The directors: Alice and Olivier, interpreting this story, making it understandable, drinkable. “Rather than endure, or even worse, try to control, withdraw, efface yourself, and accompany.” One day during winter, the bottle emerges from the cellar and soon arrives on your table. You are the one who enters the scene, who will listen to this story, and with your own experiences, feelings, and desires of the moment, you will make it your own, just as one brings their imagination to a book, and Madame Bovary doesn't look the same to every reader. This story is too rich, too intimate, too subtle to be summarized by “aromas of white flowers and chalk, can age for 3 years and will be wonderful with a chicken with morels, blah blah blah” or by “southeast-facing plot, settled for one night, 12 months in barrel, bottled on such and such a date…” For us, the story is sometimes joyful, sometimes beautiful, sometimes sad, and always full of suspense. It's a ray of sunlight skimming across the Rosettes vineyard, a breakdown at Chitry, a moment of doubt before a century-old vine in St-Bris, a fit of anger in the Clardys, a dream before the large, isolated farmhouse in Loigny, the meticulous care given to Bel-Air, a weariness among the large trellises of Envers, music in your ears to give you energy as you tackle a new vine, a burst of laughter with a grape harvester, a grape bitten into the mouth, the smell of juice flowing from the press, the muddy boots that weigh a ton and that feeling of lightness when you clean them at the end of the vine, the smell of fermentation, the stress of late August/early September when you rack the previous vintage and anxiously look at the sky to try and predict what the next one will bring, the smell of the vat when you open it after emptying it, the cicadas, the heat, spring finally returning… The wines are not for sale only from November to March and it is absolutely essential to make an appointment before coming!