100% Grolleau Noir from a newly acquired parcel grown on black schist, which was planted in 1936. Because the vines are old, they don't produce much fruit. And therefore, overall production is tiny, with only 60 bottles making it to Australia. Short whole bunch carbonic maceration. The free run and pressed juices are combined, and the wine ages in tank for 6 months. Not fined or filtered.

La Grange aux Belles has grown to a 22 hectare estate, with organic vineyards spread over 5 communes in the AOC Coteaux de l'Aubance. Marc Houtin created the domaine back in 2004.

In 2007, Marc was joined by Julien Bresteau. It was then that the pair began to convert the vineyards to organic. They worked tirelessly over the years to improve soil health, and also replanted many vines within the vineyards. They slowly purchased more plots, in and around Anjou. A few years ago, Gérald Peau (Jesse) joined them. And in 2022, Julien moved on to another project – and so now it is Marc, Jesse, and a few full time employees.

They farm many varieties – all organic. The subsoils are mainly made of schist, with some silt and clay on top. Water stress is essential, and there is little rain here, the vines work hard! They use herbal infusions such as nettles, horsetail and buckthorn and put low doses of compost on the soil at the end of winter to relaunch the microbial activity. The grapes are vinified with their natural yeasts and no additives are used, except for a small amount of SO2 before bottling (sometimes no SO2 at all).