The TUPINIER family is an old family from Bleigny-le-Carreau who have always been involved in agriculture, large-scale farming, livestock breeding and viticulture. Maurice TRUCHY, built the house with his parents, the headquarters of the current Estate.

Maurice TRUCHY's daughter married Maurice TUPINIER, with whom she had two sons, Bernard and François. Bernard did not marry, François had three children, two daughters and a son, Philippe TUPINIER. He did not wish to take over his parents' large-scale farming and livestock business when François retired in 1996.

He studied horticulture in Paris and worked for several years as a garden center department manager in the Paris region. He then returned to take up a position as a winegrower at a winery in a village in Chablis, a position he held for 11 years (from 1995 to 2006).

In 2001, when his uncle Bernard died, Philippe was an employee and took over the 33 ares of vines that his uncle cultivated in order to provide wine for family consumption.

In 2006, he left his full-time salaried position to take a job as a day laborer, in order to better organize his working time, especially since he had succeeded in reclassifying his father's 33 ares vineyard in the Burgundy appellation, recovered a 15 ares vineyard from a cousin in Burgundy Grand Ordinaire, and succeeded in planting 10 ares of Pinot Noir in Burgundy AOC .