The maison was founded in 1860, as a simple farm; it was only more than a century later, in 1965, that the press and cellar were created. Paul Bara was the great founding father of the maison, closely tied to the territory and particularly to his home village of Bouzy. In 1975 it became one of the first maisons to export its products to the United States, which is still an important market for the maison, but it now exports to all five continents.