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From a twelfth-generation family of winegrowers in Saumur, Franck Bimont took over his family’s Puy-Notre-Dame-based domaine after the passing of his father in 1989. Trained as an oenologist in Montreuil-Bellay and Bordeaux-Blanquefort, he has known no other profession, having begun work in the vineyards at just 13 years old under his grandfather’s guidance. Farming 19 hectares across both owned and leased parcels with a small team of four, his approach centers first on being a farmer: protecting biodiversity, preserving soil structure through shallow plowing, and working organically with careful, targeted treatments. In the cellar, his wines lean toward honesty and typicity, guided by native fermentations, restrained élevage, and decisions rooted as much in tasting as in analysis. At its core, Franck aims to craft wines for pleasure and sharing, where terroir, climate, and human touch combine each year to create something new with each vintage, while ​c​onserving a clear link to his ancestral past and that of the region.