After training as an electronics engineer and starting his career at Airbus, Nicolas chose to rediscover his roots and focus more on a project that brought him a bit of energy and liveliness - among the vines.
He quickly begun a training course by spending a year in the Jura with Manu Houillon and Pierre Overnoy, where he learned the methods of natural wine. Making the obvious choice of going sulphur free himself, when in 2018, he bought an old cellar of and vineyards of Clos attached, in the Layon valley.