(laughs)\nIndeed, I ran 7 marathons, and only the M\u00e9doc one. The three\nIn the last few years, we have reached the podium as a team. The\nRunning is an extraordinary sport that makes us high for 6 months,\nand the finish of a race such as the marathon is always confused with a\nhuge personal pride. And even though I’m not a running nut\n– my record being close to 4 hours -, I like the values of this race\nbeyond its sporting dimension: the conviviality and the good\nThese are the same values of the art of living that make me want to be a part of this\nalso love my job.<\/p>\n\n
How does one go from the Boulle school\nto the crus bourgeois?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n A\nAt the end of the 80’s, I was leading a career in the promotion\nreal estate and interior design. I divided my time between\nFrance, the United States and the Middle East. So I was quite far from the\nbut I often criticized the wine and the winemakers, until one day I\nI wondered if I would be able to do it myself. I therefore\nto make wine, with the will to exploit the terroir of the north of the\nM\u00e9doc where I bought 2 hectares of vineyards, on the edge of the Gironde, and to\nto produce a good wine for friends. But very quickly, I realized that he\nwas complicated to develop with 2 hectares and to set up a\ncommunication and a strong distribution network, so I seized the opportunity\nopportunities that have arisen over the years by buying out\nhectares until 2013, the year of the acquisition of Ch\u00e2teau Greysac and its 90\nhectares. It is this sequence that has allowed us to develop the domain,\nwhich today produces nearly 1.3 million bottles per year,\nmarketed worldwide.<\/p>\n\n With 192 hectares in the M\u00e9doc, you can\nyou are in a way the strong man of the region. This gives you a\nsome responsibility…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n I have\nwanted from the start that the north of the M\u00e9doc be recognized and that the winegrowers\nof the region are also for the quality of their terroirs. I think we\nhas succeeded in showing that there is more to life than just the names\nin the M\u00e9doc, which have a say in world trade.\nOur responsibility is perhaps, with all our colleagues who show themselves\nalso very dynamic, to have known how to pull up a soil which it is\ndeserved and which lived until then in the shadow of the great appellations.<\/p>\n\n Are your wines the same as they were\n30 years?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n They\nhave evolved significantly. And this, for the simple reason that I do not\nI didn’t know much about it when I arrived. My luck, at the beginning, was\nto start with only 2 hectares. This allowed me to do some silly things,\ntry many things by freeing myself from codes and habits\nof the M\u00e9doc, in terms of cultivation, wine-making and equipment.\nI was able to freely put aside what didn’t work, and kept and\nimproved what was working. Today, of course, we master\nperfectly and in fact, our wines are much more elaborate. Upper Condissas\nis a good example, as is Rollan de By.<\/p>\n\n By placing art at the center of your\nvineyards before the others, you have also broken the codes…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Usually\nIndeed, I placed artworks before it became a trend. But\nthe intention was not so much to break the codes as to be myself. I did not\nnever wanted to fit into a mold, my only motivation being to make the\nthings according to my vision. Art is part of me. I was practically raised in\nthe drawers of a Louis XV chest of drawers since my father was an antique dealer. Myself,\nI went to the Boulle school before becoming an interior designer, so well\nObviously, art interests me and has always interested me. There have always been\nat home and it was logical that it should be visible in my castles. It is in\nthis logic that I asked local artists from the beginning to tag\nmy cellar.<\/p>\n\n What dimension of art do you\nis she interested?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n First\nI am interested in what brings me a vibration. But I keep a passion\nfor Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries. All natures\nand the representations of interiors of houses, which show us the\nthe way generations lived in those days – the set tables, the\nclothes… -, I am passionate about. I have made a rather exciting collection of them,\ntoday divided between Brussels where I live, Paris and Bordeaux. <\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/17.-Jenkell-Bonbons-Château-Haut-Condissas.jpg\")
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