This estate is one of the most distinguished of the Bandol Appellation. Count Henri de Saint Victor is a former student of the Paris Ecole de Sciences Politiques and a keen collector of Neapolitan temperas. He bought the Château in 1977 and since together with his son Eric, he runs the 44ha estate planted with Mourvèdre for 95%, some Grenache and also Clairette and Bourboulenc. The Château is perched on the 'telegraph hills’, so called as this was the very location of the old optical telegraph which linked Toulon and Paris. Pibarnon is therefore the highest altitude of the Appellation (1,000 feet high). What makes the estate so special is that studies of the soils have revealed that the presence of blue clay is the same kind as the one found on the terroir of Château Pétrus. Pibarnon is the loftiest wine in reputation as well. Yields here are meager. Pibarnon's 35 hectoliter/hectare average is exactly the output permitted in grand cru Burgundy - hardly the tonnage expected in fertile Provence! Equally vital to flavour intensity is the domaine's long maceration of juice on skins - 20 days, at absolute minimum. The wine is then aged 18 months in large oak foudre. Satisfying in its youth, spectacular at maturity, Pibarnon's chocolate-tinged raspberry flavors tempt the drinker to uncork the wine in its infancy. Pibarnon, in full flower, offers aromas of cassis, laurel, and black peppercorn, with high-amplitude flavours of plum and wild cherry.This wine is made of a high proportion of Mourvèdre (over 90% and a little touch of Grenache). A wine of deep, inviting, bright ruby red, already with quite exceptional concentration on the nose, where cherries, red berries dominate. An extremely well structured wine. A masterpiece.

This estate is one of the most distinguished of the Bandol Appellation. Count Henri de Saint Victor is a former student of the Paris Ecole de Sciences Politiques and a keen collector of Neapolitan temperas. He bought the Château in 1977 and since together with his son Eric, he runs the 44ha estate planted with Mourvèdre for 95%, some Grenache and also Clairette and Bourboulenc. The Château is perched on the 'telegraph hills’, so called as this was the very location of the old optical telegraph which linked Toulon and Paris. Pibarnon is therefore the highest altitude of the Appellation (1,000 feet high). What makes the estate so special is that studies of the soils have revealed that the presence of blue clay is the same kind as the one found on the terroir of Château Pétrus. Pibarnon is the loftiest wine in reputation as well. Yields here are meager. Pibarnon's 35 hectoliter/hectare average is exactly the output permitted in grand cru Burgundy - hardly the tonnage expected in fertile Provence! Equally vital to flavour intensity is the domaine's long maceration of juice on skins - 20 days, at absolute minimum. The wine is then aged 18 months in large oak foudre. Satisfying in its youth, spectacular at maturity, Pibarnon's chocolate-tinged raspberry flavors tempt the drinker to uncork the wine in its infancy. Pibarnon, in full flower, offers aromas of cassis, laurel, and black peppercorn, with high-amplitude flavours of plum and wild cherry.This wine is made of a high proportion of Mourvèdre (over 90% and a little touch of Grenache). A wine of deep, inviting, bright ruby red, already with quite exceptional concentration on the nose, where cherries, red berries dominate. An extremely well structured wine. A masterpiece.