The Field the Mount is a family exploitation of 26 hectares located on the commune of Faye of Anjou, in the middle of the Coteau du Layon. Since three generations, the ROBIN family there cultivates the vine in a traditional way and produces the majority of angevines appellations.

Claude Robin

Half of surface is intended for the liqueur-like wines which are Bonnezeaux and the Coteaux du Layon. Other half divides between red wines . (Anjou Rouge et Anjou Villages), rosy wines (Rosé de Loire, Cabernet d'Anjou, Rosé d'Anjou) et white wines (Anjou Blanc, Sauvignon) or semi-sparkling white (Anjou Traditional Method).

The vineyard of the Slopes of the Tailboard

History :

The vine is present for a very long time in Anjou. But they are the Dutch traders who made develop the vineyard of the edges of the Tailboard since 1579 (the high alcoholic strengths reached allowed a better conservation at the time of the voyages). Harvest by sort succesives botrytized bunches is indexed since the XVIII ème century.

Grounds :

One finds schist terraces and sandstone of the Armorican base, brown and not very deep grounds (levelling bed rock) of black Anjou.

Climate :

It is of oceanic type moderated and particularly dryness. The zones delimited in name correspond to situations of well exposed and ventilated slopes which support the precocity of the vegetation.