Famille Lieubeau

Famille Lieubeau traces its story to 1816, when the orphan Joseph Grégoire was taken in at Nantes and later learned winegrowing from the family that raised him. The child in a hat on its emblem recalls his story; today Pierre and Chantal Lieubeau run the estate with their children François, Vincent and Marie.

Their organically farmed vineyards lie near Nantes, close to the Atlantic, over several types of ancient bedrock. Melon de Bourgogne is the grape behind their Muscadet wines. For the Muscadet crus, fruit from old vines is picked by hand, fermented with native yeasts and aged for an extended period on its lees in underground vats.