In 2002, Pierre and Catherine released the first bottling from vines that Pierre planted five years before in one of his choicest spots of  limestone clay. These vines are what are termed "Franc a Pied" or ungrafted onto American pest-resistant rootstock (or foot). He propogated these vines from cuttings from his own vineyards and has found that the formation of the stems, the shape of the leaves, the amount and spacing of the fruit are vastly different from the same palants the cuttings were taken from. More importantly, he has found that the fruit is remarkably different, too. The cuvée from these vines is called "Franc a Pied"