Eric and his wife Christine found a property with some vines, but mainly grazing fields, trees and grains. They nurtured the existing old vines and did a lot of planting to get to their current 14 hectares scattered over 65 parcels within six villages (sounds more like or Champagne than a tiny, obscure appellation!) They use sélection massale rather than clones, and plant at a density of 9,300 vines per hectare. They also planted an experimental plot where the density is 40,000 vines per hectare, to observe the root system's development and terroir's influence on botrytized grapes (one grape per vine). Though organic from the start, the Nicolas became firm believers in biodynamic viticulture and have been certified since 2011.

Some years the wines ferment completely dry but often have discernable yet balanced residual sugar. The house rule is to "let nature decide" how far the native yeasts will push fermentation.