Corentin was, by his own admission, a baroudeur - a wanderer - who after school, left his native Brittany and tried his hand at different trades around France such as construction and farming but it was only after working at Lestignac with Camille and Mattias in the Bergerac that he found something he wanted to stick at. He liked the working environment, the outdoors, the nature, and especially liked the mindset of the people working in the natural wine industry. It was fun! The wanderer was wandering less and worked at Lestignac for successive years from 2015 until 2018, by which time he had progressed from harvesting to assisting with the winemaking itself. The following year, Corentin started his own wine adventure with just one hectare of vines in the Anjou and he named his project Les P’tites Choses - Small Things.

Tiphaine is originally from the Paris region but was living on the Atlantic coast in Nantes working as a graphic designer. Unbeknown to both her and Corentin, they shared common friends in the Anjou and it was while visiting these friends that they met and new projects started to blossom. They decided to make wine together and it was only natural to change the name of Corentin’s original project so Small Things became Other Things - Autre Choses.

A couple of years down the line and Tiphaine and Corentin are now settled in the village of Valanjou, 20 miles south of Angers, where they live on a farm with the space to make and store their wines. They have eight hectares of vines, many of them old vines planted in the 1950s and 60s in nearby villages and the grape varieties include Chenin, Cabernet Franc, and Gamay. Their four wines - two pet-nats and two reds - are made without any additives, filtering, or fining. The pet-nats are fresh and lively while the reds are aged in neutral oak barrels for a period from four to nine months and have great texture and depth.