Domaine Lachat

The Impact:

  • Community and Collaboration: The winemakers built meaningful friendships with other natural winemakers, which directly inspired and helped them formulate plans to create their own wine

  • Family and Guest Health Protection: A primary driver for acquiring the vineyards was the conscious goal to protect their own family and visiting guests from pesticides

  • Regenerative Farming and Soil Restoration: The domain organic cultivates three hectares of vines according to regenerative agricultural principles, using techniques like sowing permanent cover crop and allowing sheep, pigs, and chickens to graze to restore the balance of the granite soils.
A double rainbow arches over a green vineyard landscape under a cloudy gray sky over Domaine Lachat
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A Anne Lekkerkerker kneeling in a vineyard under a bright blue sky, smiling at the camera while holding a small object. She is wearing a dark long-sleeve top and light blue jeans, with grapevines and another person visible in the background.

The Story

In 2018, we (Anne & Thijs) relocated from Amsterdam to the Beaujolais in pursuit of our dream to live and raise our children in the French countryside. My roots in the hospitality industry propelled me into restoring part of our property and creating a vacation rental.

This is where we welcome guests from around the world and share our view of Beaujolais farm life.

We had the unique opportunity to acquire the vineyards situated around our home, so in 2020 I took up the challenge and used my passion for both wine and cultivation to try my hand in winemaking.
Our initial goal was to protect our family and guests from pesticides around the domaine. In our friendship with other natural winemakers, we started making plans to make our own wine.

Our first harvest was in 2020, after completion of my wine education and different experiences with other winemakers.

Philosophy

Agroforestry has played a role in the vitality of our land as we have planted many different types of fruit trees around the property to encourage biodiversity.
Our vineyard parcels fall within the Beaujolais Cru, Régnié, 350-400 meters above sea level. The old vines, granite soils and biodiversity express themselves within our wines.
We strive to create wines that show both the character of the terroir as well as reflect the vintage in which they were produced. After the grapes are handpicked, semi-carbonic maceration is applied.
Spontaneous fermentation is done with indigenous yeast. We use different duration of maceration for our different cuvées.
During the fermentation process we apply minimum interventions. A minimum amount of sulphur is used before bottling.
A double rainbow arches over a green vineyard landscape under a cloudy gray sky over Domaine Lachat

The Vineyard: Domaine Lachat

Domaine Lachat is a 3-hectare farm, situated in the village of Régnié, a cru of Beaujolais.
We cultivate our three hectares of Gamay and Chardonnay vines organically, according to regenerative agricultural principles.

Each year we improve upon our farming practices in order to impact our environment in positive ways. We do this to restore the balance of our granite soils. Some techniques used to implement this are; sowing permanent cover crop and allowing our sheep, pigs and chickens to graze and fertilise the land.