Château La Tarcière is situated in Muscadet heartlands, just inside the Sevre et Maine perimeter.

Ten years ago, two brothers—Jacques and Jean-Rémi Bonnet—abandoned conventional agriculture, making a return to fieldwork and low yields. Five years ago, their conversion to organic agriculture was complete.

A well-made Muscadet is a good deal. It’s nothing like the entry-level Muscadets one finds distributed all over the world. With the AOC’s enormous growing area – about 9,000 hectares, in total – it is harder to garner accolades from the press here than it is in, say, Vosne-Romanée. Connoisseurs will be pleased to note that that Château de la Tarcière is included among the sélection de vignerons in the reference book Le Chemin des Vignes / Vallée de la Loire  produced by Le Rouge et le Blanc.