Producer Profile
Pierre Graffeuille
Pierre Graffeuille is the director of Second Growth, Château Léoville-Las-Cases in Saint-Julien and Clos du Marquis. He has undertaken a personal project and developed an unusual and completely unique wine, made with a combination of fruit from two wildly different geographic locations in France: Cabernet Sauvignon from slopes of deep gravel in the Graves du Médoc between Margaux, Saint Julien, Pauillac and St Estéphe with Grenache and Syrah from the pebbly, clay limestone soils of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Gigondas.
Having graduated from the University of Bordeaux with a degree in oenology, Graffeuille went on to Australia, New Zealand, Burgundy, and the Rhône to hone his skills before returning to Bordeaux. He shows great drive and attention to detail in all of the wine he produces. His wines are of excellent quality, and are consistently expressive of their terroir.
His ‘Odyssee’ project was created in 2015, in partnership with Matthieu Dumarcher. It is a tiny production of about 7000 bottles, blended from very qualitative plots from both regions. All the bottles are numbered individually. It is an exceptional wine that seeks to capture the beauty of Bordeaux and the Rhone valley.
