In 1976, the Naud family founded La Bauge – a boar farm an hour outside of Montreal. In 1986, after a decade of dairy farming, husband and wife Alcide and Ghislaine Naud established a winery on their land. They ran the wine operation together until 1986, at which point Simon, their youngest son, took the reins. In 2016, the family began the transition to organic farming, and in 2019, Steve Beauséjour joined Simon in the cellar, bringing with him a robust knowledge and passion for natural wine.

La Bauge Vineyard is located in the Brome-Missisquoi Valley, at the foothills of the Appalachians, near the village of Brigham, on the southern slope of a small hill, specifically on a slate ridge covered with silty-sandy glacial deposits, formerly submerged by the Champlain Sea. This explains the density, depth, and a certain minerality found in the white wines. The vineyard’s drainage is excellent due to a slope of 2 to 3 degrees towards the East.

Since 2020, the winery has upheld a resolute commitment to the tenets of natural winemaking: minimal intervention in the vineyard and the cellar, hand-harvested fruit, native yeast fermentation, zero fining or filtration, and zero sulfur. In October 2024, the Vignoble de la Bauge became the first Canadian vineyard to be certified by the Regenerative Organic Alliance, the world’s highest standard in organic agriculture.