Steward the Legacy
A vineyard on a twenty-five-year lease, wine under your own label, and a place at the vineyard's table, held quietly in your name.
We acquire small French parcels of exceptional terroir, and place them quietly in the hands of those who wish to own wine at its source.
ExquisVin draws its year, 1707, from the planting of our first Loire parcel.
A standing council of connoisseurs, scientists and scholars who safeguard what ExquisVin acquires. The Court verifies provenance, certifies authenticity, and holds every parcel, cellar and vintage to a single, exacting standard.
Four decades of corporate leadership across industry, academia and public-listed companies, with directorships spanning the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Global Chair of Certification at the World Certification Institute.
A doctor of geology and judicial expert to the Court of Appeal, versed in the tuffeau and limestone of the Loire, its appellations and its troglodyte cellars. He directs the geotechnical firm Entre Loire et Coteaux.
A corporate banker specialising in vineyard and agricultural land finance: capital structure, asset valuation and the patient view. A discerning palate uniting the worlds of finance and fine wine.
A wine writer and authority who has walked the vineyards of Bordeaux, Burgundy and the French south, bringing scholarly insight to viticulture, terroir and the craft of winemaking.
We acquire established parcels of Loire terroir and place them in your hands on a twenty-five-year exclusive lease, from a single row of vines to a full vineyard plot. A contracted French winemaker tends the vines and vinifies the fruit, season after season.
An estate cuvée bottled and labelled in your name, with or without a vineyard of your own. Choose your wine from the estate, and each vintage returns to you under a custom label.
Each vintage bottled under a custom label, composed in your name and to your taste.
Issued for every vintage, recording its parcel, its year and its passage through the cellar.
Held in climate-controlled storage in France, or shipped worldwide at your request.
For those who prefer a single, considered acquisition. Reserve a vessel from a chosen vintage, en primeur or already resting, and choose how your wine is shaped.
French oak, in the classical manner: structure, depth and the quiet imprint of the wood.
Unlined terracotta, porous and patient: pure fruit and texture, wine as it was made for centuries.
Either vessel is matured in our climate-controlled French cellars and bottled to your specification, with a certificate of authenticity for every vintage.
Reserve a Vessel →A journey through the Loire Valley, open to all who are drawn to its wines, with or without a vineyard of your own. Stay in a château, descend into the tuffeau caves, meet the winemakers at work and dine among the vines.
Nights in a Loire château, the valley and its vineyards waiting at the door.
Descend into the chalk-stone caves where the valley has matured its wines for centuries.
Walk the vineyard rows, meet the winemakers at work, and taste the new vintages drawn straight from the cellar.
Private tables and tastings, the estate's vintages poured at their source.
Hollowed beneath the Loire for centuries, the tuffeau is where the valley ages its wine.
The pale limestone keeps the cellar at a natural, even temperature and humidity all year round. Your wine rests here, in your name, until you ask for it.
Once each year, the vineyard gathers its owners in the Loire for a grand dinner in the spirit of La Paulée, the winemakers' harvest feast.
The gathering unfolds over two unhurried days. Walk the vineyard at the winemaker's side, dine within the troglodyte caves carved from tuffeau stone, and discover the estate's rare wines and older vintages, poured at their source.
A place is held for owners and extended upon request, within a small and well-chosen circle.
For those who wish to hold it all under a single membership: a vineyard, estate wine each year, journeys to the Loire and a place at the Grand Dinner.
Membership is extended by invitation. Fees are shared in confidence upon enquiry.
Tell us a little of what you have in mind. Our concierge will respond, discreetly, within one business day.
Both arrangements are offered. Outright ownership places a defined parcel into your name. A lease grants you exclusive use of a row of vines, and the wine it yields, for a twenty-five-year term, without the obligations of title. Our concierge will help you choose the form that suits you.
The lease may be renewed, allowed to conclude, or, where the estate permits, converted toward ownership. We write to you well before the term ends, so the decision is unhurried and entirely yours.
The estate's own vignerons. Each parcel is farmed, pruned, and harvested by the resident team in the Loire, to the standard the Court of Adjudicators expects. Your own involvement is a matter of preference, from a quiet distance to a hand at harvest.
In the tuffeau cellars of the estate, at the natural temperature and humidity of the stone. Your wine remains there, in your name, until you ask for it. Should you wish to receive bottles, we arrange shipping on your behalf.
Farming, vinification, and cellar storage are accounted for within your arrangement. Where you ask for delivery, shipping, duties, and insurance are billed at cost and borne by you. There are no hidden charges.
Yes to both. Fellows are welcome at the estate by appointment, and many choose to come at harvest. Ownership may be bequeathed, and a lease may be assigned, subject to a simple transfer.
Send a private enquiry above, or write to contact@exquisvin.com. Our concierge will arrange a quiet conversation, with no obligation, to understand what you have in mind.
One quiet letter each year, when the harvest is bottled and a small number of parcels become available. No obligation, and your address is never shared.