Domaine de la Clartière

The estate was created in 1905 in Nueil-sur-Layon, in the south of Maine-et-Loire, and the Pinet family has handed it down through four generations.

There is a detail hard to find in other houses: since 1930 four Pierres in a row have headed the vineyard, one after another.

The current one, Pierre-Antoine Pinet, took charge in 2007, and his brother Édouard joined in 2017. Their parents, Agnès and Pierrot, are still in the house, as is their brother Simon.

They grow six varieties and from them make seven different appellations, among them Coteaux du Layon and Cabernet d'Anjou.