The fate of Le Bon Pasteur is then closely connected to Michel Rolland who represents the spirit of the château for 40 years. Michel Rolland was born in 1947 on the edge of the Pomerol appellation. Steeped in nature, he spent his childhood and teenage years on the family property, Le Bon Pasteur in Pomerol-Maillet. Perhaps this explains his love for the land in general and in particular for the vine.
After technical studies at schools of ag...
The Pomerol appellation encompasses a multitude of micro-terroirs. What makes Château Le Bon Pasteur, with a total surface area of 6.7 hectares, so unusual is that it is located on the border between two world-famous regions: Pomerol and Saint-Emilion. As opposed to the great châteaux of the Médoc, the vineyard is not in a single block, but spread out over 21 plots. This patchwork of terroirs accounts for the wine’s considerable complexity, de...
At Château Le Bon Pasteur, we sometimes have to fill fermentation vats, even small ones, with grapes that we know have different potentials. So, for the past several years, we have been fermenting grapes in barrel – a truly artisanal technique – which showed us that we could produce wines with different characteristics even with grapes from the same plot, and then ferment them according to their exact profile.
We needed two things to do th...
Michel Rolland was born on a modest estate, but decided early on that this would be his universe. He was instinctively drawn to oenology in the late 1960s: a discipline that had been raised to the status of a major science by Emile Peynaud. He met his future wife while at university. This was the beginning of an unprecedented winemaking partnership. What is Michel Rolland’s secret? It can be summarised by an all-consuming desire to succeed and...
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