Originally created by Claude Nonain, abbé of the town of Fuissé, in the eighteenth century. After the revolution, ownership fell to a schoolteacher from Mâcon who had married into the Nonain family. During a period of famine he enlisted the local people to clear the land to grow cereals, and rewarded their efforts with much needed bread. This kind soul sold the estate in 1848 to a wine merchant from Lyon who subsequently replaced the modest house with the much grander mansion that sits at the centre of the vineyards to this day. A quick succession of new owners followed until it was purchased my M. Varambon, and his descendants continue to run it today. In 1995 his great grand-daughter Claire Gazeau, and her Italian husband Fabio Montrasi, came to Fuissé to take the helm and create the wines we now know.

Today the Château des Rontets estate includes a Clos, or walled vineyard, of 5.6 hectares in the lieu-dit Les Rontets and a plot of half a hectare in the lieu-dit Pierrefolle, both within the district of Fuissé. The estate also includes half a hectare in the lieu-dit Côte de Besset, within the district of Saint-Amour. Château des Rontets produces three cuvées of Pouilly-Fuissé and one of Saint-Amour. All its wines are certified organic and are intensely characterful expressions of the owners’ dedication to these terroirs and what they call the genius loci, the spirit of the place.