The Domaine du Chétif Quart is a family domain of six hectares in the Côte Chalonnaise region of Burgundy. The family home and winery are in the small hamlet of Cercot at the foot of Mont Avril, just south of the Givry appellation.

The majority of the domain’s vineyards are on the slopes of Mont Avril between 300 and 400 meters in altitude. Lucas D’Heilly Huberdeau took over his family’s domain in 2019 and with the vintage 2021 changed the domain name from D’Heilly Huberdeau to Chétif Quart, reflecting the domain’s “lieu dit”. Lucas’s parents, Pierre D’Heilly and Martine Huberdeau, both professors of Ecology at the Sorbonne in Paris, arrived in Cercot in 1978 to, as one says, ‘practice what they preached’.

Since the beginning, Pierre and Martine farmed organically, making their estate one of the earliest organic estates in Burgundy. Lucas divides his time by working half of the day in the vineyards and winery before going for the afternoons to his medical practice, as a general practitioner. He has carried on his parents work in the vineyards and after creating 50 bird shelters in the vineyards, he has received certification from the government as a protected bird sanctuary. The harvest is gathered by hand and the fermentations occur with indigenous yeasts.