ANNE-FRANCE DAUTHEVILLE
Writer
‘It all began with a dinner with friends. I was warned that Pascale and Jean-Marie Bouldy would be there. I reminded myself over and over not to say anything awful or offensive… Unsuccessfully! We all laughed together, and our friendship was born. I discovered Château Bellegrave that very evening. This wine was a creation, a work of art reminiscent of a painting, or more accurately a piece of music: it has a style, a melody that develops, grows and is refined, and a dizzying array of details that turn it into something beautiful. That is Pascal and Jean-Marie’s wine: it announces its personality from the very first sip, powerful without being brutal, infinitely nuanced without being mannered… It took eighteen goes to cover it all. That evening stirred my admiration for a man and woman who know how to transform an encounter between earth and fruit into infinitely subtle pleasure. We say that wine was invented to allow humans to understand the knowledge of the gods: the Bouldys have invented a magnificent dictionary! ’