How we sell our wines.

1. Who sells

SCEA HALBERT Joseph et Éric, a French agricultural company (société civile d'exploitation agricole), share capital €110 000, SIRET 488 259 458 00013, registered with the Trade and Companies Register of Angers under number 488 259 458. Intra-EU VAT number FR 10 488 259 458. Manager and publisher: Éric Halbert.

Registered office and cellar: 2329 route de Saint-Laurent-de-la-Plaine, Villeneuve, Saint-Aubin-de-Luigné, 49190 Val-du-Layon, France. Phone +33 2 41 78 08 76. Email scea.halbertje@orange.fr.

We sell wines and grape juice from our own harvest, made and bottled on the estate.

2. Sale of alcohol and health

The sale of alcohol to persons under eighteen is prohibited (article L. 3342-1 of the French Public Health Code). By placing an order you declare that you are at least eighteen. We may ask for proof of age and refuse any order if in doubt.

Drinking alcohol during pregnancy, even in small amounts, can have serious consequences for the child's health. Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health; please drink responsibly.

3. Ordering and paying online

Order paid online. Orders are paid online, on the website. The sale is concluded as soon as the payment is accepted. The price that binds you is the one shown at the time of payment, recalculated by our server from the current price list. A summary is emailed to you, and we call you to arrange shipping or collection. Should a wine turn out to be sold out, we let you know and refund the corresponding amount within fourteen days.

The steps. You choose your wines and how you receive them. The form shows the detail and the total including VAT and any shipping, and you can correct anything. You tick the box accepting these terms, then click Pay for my order. You check the amount on Stripe's payment page before confirming it. We keep a record of the order and email you its summary. The order can be placed in French or English.

If we cannot fulfil all or part of your order, because a wine has sold out or the address cannot be served, we let you know and refund the amounts concerned, with shipping recalculated, within fourteen days.

4. Prices

Prices are in euros, all taxes included, per bottle sold by the case of six, or per whole bag-in-box. They follow the current year's price list and may change from one year to the next. The applicable price list is the one in force on the day your order is paid.

Shipping costs are added to the price of the wines. They depend on the number of units, one unit being one bottle or one litre of bag-in-box, and are worked out on the order form and added to the total before payment.

Orders on the website are delivered in mainland France only, or collected at the cellar. For a shipment elsewhere, call the cellar: we will make you a separate offer, with its full price, before any order.

5. Payment

Online payment. Card payment on the website is processed by Stripe, our payment provider. Your card details are entered on its secure pages: we never have access to them and do not store them. Your card is charged when the payment is confirmed.

Orders placed by phone, by email or in person are paid on receipt or when you collect at the cellar, by cheque payable to SCEA HALBERT Joseph et Éric, in cash within the legal limit, or by bank transfer if agreed.

The goods remain our property until the price has been paid in full.

6. Shipping and collection

Mayo special edition. The wines of this edition are sold by the bottle, by the case of six, and are not delivered by us: the orders of the edition are grouped at the cellar and handed over together to the carrier appointed by the organiser of the Mayo group order, who arranges the transport to Ireland. Any duties, excise and taxes due in the country of arrival are not included in our prices. Under article L. 216-5 of the French Consumer Code, when delivery is entrusted to a carrier we did not offer, the risk of loss or damage passes to you when the goods are handed to that carrier.

We ship your order by carrier to the address given, in mainland France. The shipping date is agreed with you after your order. Failing any agreement, we deliver at the latest thirty days after the sale is concluded (article L. 216-1 of the French Consumer Code).

The goods travel at our risk until you take physical possession of them. Please check your parcels on delivery and note any damage on the carrier's delivery slip.

Collection at the cellar is possible during opening hours.

Under article L. 216-6 of the French Consumer Code, if delivery does not take place on the agreed date, you may require us to deliver within a reasonable time, then terminate the contract if we fail to do so. Any sums paid are then refunded.

7. Right of withdrawal

For orders concluded at a distance, through the website, by phone or by email, you have fourteen days from receipt of the goods to withdraw, without giving reasons or paying any penalty (articles L. 221-18 and following of the French Consumer Code).

To exercise this right, tell us of your decision by an unambiguous statement, by post to the cellar or by email to scea.halbertje@orange.fr. You may use the model withdrawal form below.

The goods must be returned to us no later than fourteen days after your notice, in their original condition, complete, bottles unopened. Return costs are at your expense. You are liable for any loss in value resulting from handling beyond what is necessary to establish the nature and characteristics of the goods.

We refund all sums paid, including standard shipping costs, no later than fourteen days after receiving the goods back or proof that they have been sent.

The right of withdrawal does not apply to purchases made directly at the cellar, which are not distance sales.

8. Availability

Our wines are sold within the limits of what the harvest allows. A vintage may sell out during the year. If a wine you have paid for has sold out, we let you know. With your agreement we replace it with another wine, adjusting the price; otherwise we refund that wine, with shipping recalculated, within fourteen days.

9. Guarantees

All our products benefit from the legal guarantee of conformity (articles L. 217-3 and following of the French Consumer Code) and the guarantee against hidden defects (articles 1641 and following of the French Civil Code). A non-conforming product may be replaced or refunded.

If a bottle has a defect, cork taint, a cork that let air in, a damaged label, tell us. Bring it back or keep it, and call us on +33 2 41 78 08 76 or write to scea.halbertje@orange.fr. We prefer to settle such things simply, and always have.

10. Storage

Our wines travel and age well, but need a little care. Keep bottles lying down, away from light and temperature changes. Bag-in-box wine should be bottled within twenty-four hours of delivery, with good corks. We cannot guarantee a product stored in poor conditions after delivery.

11. Complaints and mediation

Any complaint can be sent to us by phone on +33 2 41 78 08 76 or by email to scea.halbertje@orange.fr. We reply within a few days.

If no solution is found, you may refer the matter free of charge to a consumer mediator: A_REMPLIR, mediator's name, postal address and website. A referral is only admissible after a prior written complaint to us.

12. Personal data

Data collected by the order form and the contact form are used only to handle and charge your order, send you its confirmation and arrange shipping or collection. Online payment is processed by Stripe, which receives only the data needed for the payment. They are never transferred or sold. They are only received by the estate and by the service providers needed to run the website: Stripe for payment, Google, whose Gmail service sends the order emails, and Hostinger, the website host. Order data and invoices are kept for ten years, as required by French accounting rules (Code de commerce, article L123-22), and messages sent through the contact form for three years after our last exchange. You have the right to access, correct, object and erase, to be exercised with scea.halbertje@orange.fr. Details are in our legal notice.

13. Intellectual property

The texts, photographs and design of this website belong to us or are used with their authors' consent. Any reproduction, even partial, requires our written consent.

14. Governing law

These terms are drawn up in French and governed by French law. Only the French version is binding. In the event of a dispute, and after seeking an amicable solution, the French courts have jurisdiction.