The Domaine du Nozay has its origins in the eponymous Château de Nozay , a picturesque 17th century Château in Saint Gemme en Sancerrois , in the north of the Sancerre wine-growing region in the eastern Centre-Loire . The soils here are characterised by fossilized limestone, known locally as terres blanches (= white soils). Back in the 1970's, Marie-Hélène and Baron Philippe de Benoist had moved into the historic Château de Nozay. Only years earlier, Saint Gemme had been cl