Toby and Julie Bainbridge met when Julie found him working on a harvest crew in Protection, Kansas. By the early 2000s, they had relocated to France and Toby started working with Didier Chaffardon in Anjou leading the couple to make their first wine in 2007, the same year they gave birth to their first son. In 2012, after a few years under the tutelage and employ of René Mosse, Toby and Julie went out on their own and started full-time production on their eponymous domaine.