After being a roadie in the UK for 90s bands like The Verve, Blur, and Radiohead, Anne Paillet settled into coporate life in the Parisian financial district of la Défense.  But a brooding need for something more from life, and a bad car accident, set her on an entirely new course. 

Looking to follow a new dream, she was set to take over a friend’s Languedoc vineyard.  But the friend’s plan changed and Paillet’s own life took another twist when she met the love of her life, Loire Valley vigneron Gregory Leclerc.  Determined to make her own distinct wines, she devised a cunning plan: she would work with Languedoc grapes in the couple’s Loire cellar!  The grapes ripen in the hot Languedoc sun on vines belonging to grower Ludovic Gervais in Corconne (Pic-Saint-Loup).  At harvest time, Paillet handles the fermentation on site, then brings the new wines home to the Touraine region for aging.  The results are extraordinary - the full, succulent fruit of the southern Languedoc aged in the cool and humid climate of the Loire produces complex and delectable wines that Anne affectionally refers to as “Loiredoc.”  

When we asked her whether she intended from the start to produce her wines naturally, she replied simply that it would have been impossible for her to do it any other way.  The grapes are grown organically, hand harvested, and fermented with natural yeast and the least intervention possible.  To try them is to savour the uniqueness both of their blended terroir and of the personality of the free-spirited and intrepid vigneronne who makes them.