History
The origin of the vineyard's name is unknown, although it is known to have been used since the High Medieval age, and at least three different hypotheses exist. The one most commonly assumed is that it may come from the bonnes mères ("good mothers"), nuns of the Cistercian order at Notre-Dame de Tart. There is also the hypothesis that it originates from the verb marer, cultivate, which means that the literal translation is often given as "good vintage". The third hypothesis, favoured by the Drouhin family, is that a myth of a winegrower who in this vineyard unearthed a sculpture representing three goddesses of fecundity, the bonnes mères.
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