Even though this domaine was born very recently, and thus its history is perhaps a brief one, the viticultural chapter in the story of proprietor Noëlla Morantin is a little longer, and deserves recounting. It opens several years before she embraced the life of a Cher Valley vigneronne, and begins with the realisation that a career in marketing just wasn’t going to give Noëlla the life she truly craved. Satisfaction would only come with a fresh challenge and a new direction, it seemed. No doubt influenced by childhood memories of harvest time and winemaking, albeit on a small scale – her father having tended a few vines making wine for personal consumption rather than for commercialisation – viticulture and a life of wine seemed to be calling to her. But how to go about it?