Domaine Bernard Baudry is located in the village of Cravant-les-Coteaux and in the town of Chinon, in France’s Loire Valley. It was founded in 1975 when Bernard Baudry, then a young wine consultant with a degree in oenology from Beaune, decided to start his own domaine. He purchased 5 acres of vineyards. Today the domaine owns 75 acres and Bernard works with his son Matthieu, who joined the family domaine in 2000 after studying winemaking and working in California and Tasmania. The domaine grows Cabernet Franc and Chenin Blanc and produces its wine in what the French call the biodynamic, or natural method, meaning grapes are grown organically and tended and harvested by hand. Additional sugar, yeasts and sulfur dioxide are avoided during fermentation. Domaine Bernard Baudry makes several cuvees from various vineyards, and has won praise from the Wine Advocate, among other journals.