Chateau de Premeaux 12 Items

In 1983 Alain Pelletier took over the family farm, formerly a Chateau which burned down before the French Revolution. A decisive man, he immediately stopped he father’s practice of selling off all their wine to negociants, and began estate bottling. He instituted a vigorous pruning program in the years that followed to improve the health of his vines and lower yields. In 1985 a major updating of the cave was done. In 1989-90, following the advice of his friends and neighbors Bertrand Ambroise and Alain Meunier (of Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron), Pelletier installed a sorting table and stopped fining and filtering all his red wines. In the latter 90s he began tending his white wine vineyard organically, a practice he is gradually moving toward with all of his vineyards.