Famille Descombe

The story of the Descombe family as a wine producer began over a hundred years ago in 1905, when François Descombe was the mayor of the village of Saint Etienne des Oullières near Mont Brouilly. Three decades later, his son Florent was already delivering family-made wines to cafes, hotels and restaurants in the Beaujolais region, but sometimes also further afield to Lyon and Paris. The task of the next generation - François again - was to get the wines to where consumers increasingly enjoyed them, i.e. at home. This is how the producer began to build his distribution network also directly to consumers.

At the turn of the 21st century, the wines of the Descombe family were already sold all over the world. With Marine, the fifth generation representative, the vineyards have been expanded, and today the family has production not only in Beaujolais, but also in Chablis and Northern Rhône. In addition to viticulture, each farm also takes care of nurturing the biodiversity of the environment by, for example, caring for forests. The family's plans are to plant up to 15,000 trees around their nurseries and partly in their place, because the trees protect the nurseries from both wind and frost, but also create a favorable habitat for insects, birds, bats and other small predators.

In Beaujolai, the family's wines are produced under the name of Château de Pougelon, in Chablis under the name of Domaine Passy le Clou, and in the Rhône under the name of Domaine de Là-Haut. Chablis production as a whole is HVE certified.

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