Valandraud BLANC 2018

Jean-Luc Thunevin, who founded Chateau de Valandraud, his life story is absolutely inspiring enough to be made into a movie and put on the big screen. Jean-Luc Thunevin was born in Algeria and moved to France in 1960 when he was only a 9-year-old boy and 16 years old. Working as a lumberjack and working as a bank teller at the age of 25 has absolutely nothing to do with alcohol.

Everything is arranged by itself. Before he started making wine, Jean Luc Thunevin opened a small restaurant called TERTRE in Saint-Emilion. At that time, there was a regular customer in the restaurant who was an employee of Petrus. Jean Luc Thunevin always took great care of him, and the other party He also often introduced to him how extraordinary the wines of Petrus were. Jean Luc Thunevin was so attracted that he decided to write a letter to the owner of Petrus, hoping to purchase two bottles of wine. Then he received an unexpected reply. The content of the letter is probably as follows: Petrus never retails, and the rules cannot be broken, but because of your care for Petrus employees, I will give you two bottles of 1955 Petrus wine as a special gift.

So Jean Luc Thunevin served two bottles of wine at his wife's birthday party. It was this wine tasting experience that gave Jean Luc Thunevin the idea of ??making wine.