Emmanuel Houillon Pierre Overnoy Arbois Pupillin Chardonnay Savagnin 1999 Bottle (75cl)

Histoire du domaine

In 1968, Pierre Overnoy took over the 2.65 hectares of vines from the family mixed-farming estate run by his father in Pupillin. From the beginning, he worked without synthetic herbicides or pesticides and progressively sought to break away from conventional oenological practices, under the influence notably of Jules Chauvet, Jacques Néauport and his own observations; this journey led him to abandon sulfur in winemaking in the mid-1980s. Emmanuel Houillon arrived as an apprentice in the autumn of 1990, then became an employee after his training in viticulture and oenology. He personally took charge of a third of a hectare of Chardonnay in 1995, planted an additional half-hectare in 1998, and in the same year supported the expansion of the estate through the takeover of 2.5 hectares of Poulsard and Savagnin belonging to Pierre's sister. In 2001, Pierre Overnoy retired and handed over management to Emmanuel Houillon, who officially became his adopted son; Emmanuel and his wife Anne then fully took the reins of the maison. Thirty ares of Trousseau were planted in 2013. In 2025, Emmanuel Houillon stated that he was maintaining the estate at 6.60 hectares; his son Baptiste had also joined the estate after apprenticeships at Ruppert-Leroy in Champagne and Thierry Allemand in Cornas.