History
The first plot of Jean-Marc Brocard was a man, Louis Petit, winemaker who teach him the Vine, Wine and Men.
Jean-Marc Brocard still cultivates his science and wisdom: “Look, be quiet and learn.“. The long years of learning, take the same paths of the old winemaker, put his hands on the same branches, watching the same moon, Jean-Marc Brocard has kept patience and respect, the lessons of the soil and subsoil, vines and life.
Louis Petit told him how to talk the terroir. From root to the vine, from the vine to the cluster, from the cluster to the must, and from must to wine, he initiated the slow path of aromas. He told him, man to man, secrets and knowledge that can not be explained but which share in the light of early morning or in the cool shade of a cellar.
With Louis Petit, the wit was grafted to the youth to make sensible the idea of perpetuity, of transmission.
In 1973 Jean-Marc settled in Préhy and built his own cellars in the middle of the vineyards. After years of hard work and many visitors to the Domaine the high quality of Jean-Marc Brocard’s wines is recognised throughout France and the global market.
Nowadays Jean-Marc is gradually handing over the company to his son, Julien, a qualified engineer whose passion for and fresh outlook on the vine and its environment has brought another aspect of vinegrowing to Préhy. An advocate of biodynamic culture, he applies its principles to the soil, the vines and the cellar
We place the vine at the heart of its environment and use preparations made from beneficial plants to stimulate its immune system. The work in the vineyards and in the cellars is carried out according to the lunar cycle.
The principles of biodynamic and organic culture are applied to the majority of our vineyards. We continue our work always with the aim of improving the quality of our products.
As CEO of the company, Julien continues the development of the area while pulsing a corporate culture:
"Do it better, make it better, improve it if it is not broke, because if we do not, we can not compete with those who do"
The ammonite symbol in the company logo refers to life force – the spiral is naturally present in nature symbol of creation and fulfillment, it characterizes our commitment to continuous improvement of our business approach.