Angela Quiblier from Jura and Hugo Foizel from Champagne, both from wine-growing regions but without a family estate to take over.

We have both been passionate about wine for many years and it is this common passion that brought us together in Chénas to set up our OBORA estate in 2021.

We are certified in organic farming on 5 hectares and we plow the vines with a tractor, winch and horse. For treatments, copper sulfur and plant decoctions (to reduce the previous two) are our allies.

In 2024, we will farm vines in the Chénas, Juliénas and IGP Saône et Loire Blanc appellations (Chardonnay and Viognier).

We harvest all the vines by hand and then vat them in whole clusters after cooling overnight. There then follows a period of around two weeks of monitoring and light pumping over in order to stimulate yeast activity without causing significant extraction. The devatting takes place on sugars and the alcoholic fermentation ends in vats before aging in barrels or enameled steel. The whites are cooled, pressed, and aged on total lees in barrels. The wines are neither fined nor filtered before being bottled.