All of our wines are produced without chemicals, pesticides, insecticides or other such like chemicals used by mass wine producers; We are a 100% organic vineyard in all aspects.

The Dauny family is a old vintner familly based in Sancerre having cultivated vines in the area Champtin since 1683.

Nicole and Christian Dauny represent the twelfth generation and the thirteenth generation is assured by their sons Benoît and Thibaut.

In 1964 the vineyard moved over to organic farming, becoming the first in the area to do so, with an aim to remove all kinds of pollution, providing a better quality of wine.

Special emphasis is placed on environmentally friendly and sustainable farming and gentle removal methods. The family cultivates 20 hectares of vineyards, including the located exclusively in family owned single location Jesuit garden. Special emphasis is placed on environmentally friendly and sustainable farming and gentle removal methods. Modern process engineering is used specifically and exclusively serves the basic security of income and especially the quality. So is dispensed increasingly for quality reasons on the mechanical grape harvesting. The majority of the harvest is read again by hand. This favors the production of high quality wines.

Over the last thirty years Michele Chiarlo has been patiently selecting vineyards with soil and exposures that give consistently high quality. The vineyard practices (severe pruning, cluster thinning to limit the crop, use of organic fertilisers and spraying with only the traditional Bordeaux mixture) also reflect the Chiarlo philosophy of quality. Grapes produced in this way cost a lot more, but that is what it takes to produce the best.

Casa Santos Lima has been a family business for many generations and was founded by Joaquim Santos Lima, who, by the turn of 19th century, was among the greatest producers and exporters of Portuguese wines. Maria João Santos Lima and José Luís Santos Lima Oliveira da Silva, granddaughter and great grandson of the founder, have been leading Casa Santos Lima since 1990, replanting most of the vines and modernizing all its productive structure.