Sandrine Farrugia is originally from Paris, where she grew up and eventually landed a job with a wine exporter based in Paris selling organic wines to Japan.  While working, she met and began dating Elian Da Ros in 2007, and in 2010 Sandrine moved to the Marmandais to begin her wine internship, and to join her life partner Elian Da Ros.

In 2012, a local grower leased her 0.52 hectares of white vines, and she made her first wines.  But the wines were not released commercially because the vineyard was not organically farmed.  For the next 3 years she converted the vineyard to organic farming and shortly thereafter, she bought another 2 hectares of red vines in a parcel close by.

Today Sandrine farms less than 3 hectares and makes a very modest amount of wine in Elian’s cave.  Her wines are made with a minimalist approach- managing the vineyards and vinification herself based on what she has learned in the last 10 years. The result is a very small amount of delicious wines from the very special terrior of Marmandais!