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This Sancerre estate’s origins stretch back to the 1940s, when brothers Francis and Paul Cotat started bottling wine under the Cotat name in the cellar of Chavignol. For many years, the same wines were bottled under two labels (Francis Cotat and Paul Cotat) – as a way to avoid higher taxes. When this loophole was closed by the French government, they decided to retire and pass the estate to their sons, François and Pascal, in 1998. The brothers divided the property and there have, since then, been two Cotat estates.