Christian Drouin Sr. acquired the Fiefs SainteAnne on the Gonneville hills, near Honfleur, in 1960. The farm was planted with cider-apple trees and Christian was soon seized by the desire to produce his own calvados. Christian was both rigorous and enterprising: with the help of Pierre Pivet, a licensed distiller well known in the northern part of the Pays d'Auge, he spent the first twenty years distilling his cider production. The resulting calvados was set aside to age in former sherry, port or calvados casks stored in the old half-timbered outbuildings of the farm. He also acquired several batches of very old calvados when the estates of some reputed producers were sold. Christian Drouin Sr. won his first medals in regional competitions and in Paris. Today, the blends are still created jointly by grandson Guillaume Drouin and his father, Christian Drouin Jr.