Château Le Puy rocketed to fame in 2009, thanks to Japanese manga series ‘The Drops of God’, which tells the story of one man’s quest to discover the world’s greatest bottles. But despite this sudden interest, remarkably little has changed at the estate in 400 years.
While many Bordeaux properties were drawn to chemical agriculture in the inter-war period, the Amoreau family have never used synthetic fertilizers or herbicides. A pioneer of biodynamic farming and natural winemaking (long before the dogmas and manifestos), Le Puy is an oasis of biological diversity. For every hectare of vines, there’s another of hedgerows, figs, hazelnuts, and beehives.
Situated in Saint-Cibard, Le Puy’s vineyards share the same limestone plateau as neighbouring appellations, Saint-Emilion and Pomerol. Spicy and vivid, earthy and saline, Le Puy is reminiscent of the best Bordeaux of old.
