Domaine PELVILLAIN Frères vin de Cahors aoc

The public image of PELVILLAIN Frères merges with those of two eminent wine estates of the Cahors area, Château de Cénac and Château du Port.
PELVILLAIN Frères thanks to the dynamism and the entrepreneurship of its directors and heartened by a legitimate ambition, is, no doubt about that, the up-and-coming Cahors wine specialist at this beginning of 21 st century.

During several centuries, the Quercy region wine growers remained subjected to the rules enacted by the Jurats of Bordeaux which supported their own regional vineyards to the detriment of the others, among which those of Cahors. Nevertheless its reputation grew and flourished with the passing centuries. Cahors became, in particular, very appreciated at the court of Russia at the time of Peter the Great in the 18 th century. In the 19 th century, the vineyard of the Lot department encompassed
40 000 hectares but was completely devastated by the phylloxera between 1868 and 1884. Many wine growers gave up their activity and a terrible rural migration followed.

THE UP-AND-COMING CAHORS WINE SPECIALIST

The three Pelvillain brothers, Arnaud, Didier and Francis jointly run one of the beautiful houses in the Cahors area dedicated to offering high quality wines that represent value for the discerning consumer.
PELVILLAIN Frères mainly acts as a family-owned producer of A.O.C. Cahors. Under the name GAEC de Circofoul, it encompasses several vineyards which harvests are processed a single winemaking facility located at Albas a beautiful medieval village overlooking the Lot river.
In addition, to answer the demand of its customers for wines from south-west France , it also includes a Négociant House: Albas Distribution France Vin.

A LONG VINTNER’S HISTORY

The Cahors area of production is definitely one of oldest of France . The culture of the grapevine started in the Quercy region at the end of the Roman conquest, at the very beginning of our era. Destroyed by the Barbarian invasions, the vineyard was reconstituted in the 7 th century and, then, continued to expand, in particular during the period when Aquitaine was under English domination (12 th and 13 th centuries). The wine then began to be transported on the Lot and Garonne rivers to Bordeaux in “gabares”, these typical-of-the-region flat-bottomed boats. The reputation of the wines of Cahors was propagated in all Europe by the pilgrims of Santiago de Composte who, on their way to the shrine, had the chance to taste them.

After the second world war, the reconstitution of the Cahors vineyard was undertaken but the great frosts of 1956 ruined it again.
It is in the decades 1960 and 1970 that the vineyard of Cahors was truly revived to reach the present surface of approximately 4 500 hectares. The Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée statute was granted to Cahors in 1971.
Despite all these misfortunes, the vineyard of Cahors survived because it was legitimate that such a talented wine region never gave up this vocation.

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