Les Valseuses is often translated loosely as the wanderers. The name recalls a well known French film starring Gérard Depardieu, but for the winemakers behind the project, it speaks more simply to movement. To wander through France, to find grapes, to blend them through long macerations, and to see what kind of wine might emerge from the journey.

Antoine Le Court began his path in wine growing up in Angers, in the Loire, surrounded by a deep culture of natural wine. His first formal experience came in 2012 at Pithon Paillé. From there, his education unfolded through travel. He worked in Corsica with Domaine U Stiliccionu, then at Château Latour, before heading abroad to Felton Road in New Zealand. He continued on to California with Rajat Parr, to Australia with James Erskine of Jauma, and with Alice Bouvot of Domaine L’Octavin. Eventually, Antoine traveled to South America, working with Luis Antoine Luyt before backpacking across the continent. His journey ended, for a time, in the forests outside São Paulo, where he brewed beer and met his partner, Julia Naar, a French translator.

Together, they returned to France and began Les Valseuses.They found a farmhouse just outside Arbois in the village of Planches près Arbois, tucked into the Planche Valley between hanging limestone cliffs and shallow caves. Above the house, the terrain softens into slopes of marl. Here, Antoine and Julia have planted roughly one and a half hectares of classic Jura varieties, with their first estate harvest expected in 2025.