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Ferme de la Sansonnière
Anjou · Loire · France
La Ferme de la Sansonnière occupies a handful of hectares in Thouarcé, in the heart of Anjou’s Coteaux du Layon. Mark Angeli settled here at the end of the 1980s and was among the first growers in the region to certify biodynamic and to bottle without added sulphur when the fruit allowed. He and, later, his son Martial farm Chenin and Grolleau on schist and clay-limestone, with hand harvests and native-yeast ferments raised in old barrels. Cuvées such as La Lune, Les Fouchardes, Les Blanderies and the sweet Bonnezeaux have become references for dry and late-harvest Anjou that taste of place rather than of technique.
“Bruno Ciofi has worked alongside the family in recent years, helping carry the farming and cellar forward as Mark stepped back after 2022.”
The estate remains Ecocert and Demeter certified — a quiet pillar of natural Loire Chenin, and a mentoring ground for a generation of younger Anjou growers.
