Cahier Vinexpo elles & eux Les Domaines Rollan de By déploient leurs parcelles à l’embouchure de la Gironde. Domaines Rollan de By’s plots lie on and around the mouth of the Gironde. La Famille, œuvre dessinée par Jean Guyon, parc de Rollan de By. La Famille, a work by Jean Guyon, grounds of Rollan de By. Breaking new ground Jean Guyon, who has a flair for mixing genres, likes to stay close to his vines. That’s how he makes the finest wines possible and draws inspiration for his collection of contemporary art. When interior designer Jean Guyon park, he exhibits sculptures by Philippe 180,000 bottles sold there every year. moved to the Médoc, he adopted it heart Hiquily and Laurence Jenkell’s Candies, Guyon is an unstoppable force. In 2016, and soul. He chose the tip of this wine- which were commissioned for the G20 he bought a 10-hectare wine property in growing region, a strip of land flanked in Cannes in 2011 and have traveled all Saint-Émilion, Château La Fleur Perey, by water, to develop his life’s work: 185 over the world. ideally located in the Monbousquet area. hectares of vines on the Quaternary clay In among these iconic contemporary It represents a foray onto the right bank and the gravel mounds of y,were pieces are his own giant statues in metal, for this estuary man, who prefers to stay the mist lingers low in the sky. as well as his collection of 16th- and close to his vineyards than go traveling This École Boulle graduate and inspired 17th-century Flemish paintings and around the world. “I like to be on the spot entrepreneur with a passion for art likes graffiti by young artists from Bordeaux, to get a real feel for this unique terroir; to swim against the tide. While others who decorated the outside walls of the I want to recreate the wines I loved when swear by conventional lore, Guyon is chai. The interior has a distinctly more I was younger, which shaped my palate.” breaking new ground on this remote classical look: 1,200 barrels containing These wines, like Haut-Brion, Sociando- spot, certain of the soil’s potential and the wines of Domaines Rollan de By: Mallet and Haut-Marbuzet, continue besotted with its landscape. “Wine is a La Clare, Tour Séran, Rollan de By, to inspire him to this day. new inspiration every year; it’s a new Greysac and Haut Condissas. Most of Guyon is currently celebrating the 30th sculpture created with every vintage.” the 1.2 million bottles produced by anniversary of the Domaines Rollan de He turned the grounds of Rollan de By the estate, including a new white and a By. But he remains a man full of new surrounding the elegant chartreuse, rosé, are exported; Greysac has even ideas who has lost none of his passion. transformed into a six-suite luxury hotel, become the largest-selling French There’s no telling what idea will catch into a creation in and of itself. In the château in the United States, with his attention next. L’ABUS D’ALCOOL EST DANGEREUX POUR LA SANTÉ. À CONSOMMER AVEC MODÉRATION. DRINK IN MODERATION. ALCOHOL ABUSE IS HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH. 216 9102 siraP PGADA ,ehcterraL salociN te tuahélB navI ,tluairuA neimaD - noyuG naeJ yB niV ud erutuoC etuaH aL SAS - urdeL xiléF ©