Sensitive to the most diverse forms of creative expression, Paul Garcin explores a continuing path of creativity, throughout his work with wine. After an excursion into the worlds of cinema and music, he joined the family business in 2007 and in particular Château Haut-Bergey where he spent most of his adolescence. Aware of new experiences, he developes his own personal taste in wine by working directly in the vineyard. Driven by the inspiration of wine growers throughout France, he shapes his own experience with the commitment, pleasure and sharing of values and respect for the land.
Mindful of the organic approach to wine making, as introduced to him by his wife, a trained nutritionist, he was quickly drawn towards the environmental and bio-dynamic considerations of those people he meets, who appreciate and undersatand what they drink.

« Finding the bench mark between a good wine and a great wine is much more based on an emotional view than an organoleptic one. That emotional and satisfying bench mark, I have only ever experienced in the tasting of bio-dynamic wines. »

His responsibilities and the importance of ‘a hands on’ approach to wine making has convinced him to live directly on the premises. He lives next to the Château, with his wife, his greatest support and their two children and he spends his working life shared between the vineyards and the chais.

When in 2014 he became head of Château Haut-Bergey, he restructured and strengthened the team as part of his new vision of the domain and it’s wines. He achieved his vision of an organic product in 2015 and put his idea of bio-dynamic wine making throughout all the vineyards in 2016.

As a true mark of it’s authenticity, Château Haut-Bergey was honoured with the organic and bio-dynamic certification AB and Demeter in 2018 and Biodyvin in 2019, making it the first property of the appellation to be certified bio-dynamic.

When he arrived, in 2012, at Château Haut-Bergey, Francois Prouteau had, already worked for three years on the Garcin estate.
With his past viticultural origins at Bonnezeaux in the Anjou region and a family education concentrated around wine, his interests in making wine and how and where the vines grow, started early in his life. As a red wine enthusiast and in a search of new horizons, he moved to the Gironde in 2008, to follow a BTS viticulture and oenology course, as well as studying for a Quality licence at L’Institut de Vayres. Via the BTS work and study programme, he got to know the Garcin family properties well, by working, throughout his studies at their Rive Droite holdings at Pomerol and Saint Emilion.

Freshly graduated and just as the former maitre de chais had departed, he was asked to ensure the development and continuity of the work at Château Haut-Bergey. At this point, in 2012, he engaged a new team and since then, he has never looked back.

He has experienced the changes driven by Paul Garcin, with whom he shares, the same taste for wines that express the land from which they come. From this approach, there emerged a new vision which enables him to develop a more personal wine making method, guaranteeing truly authentic, pure and fresh tasting wines.

Conscious of the necessary time needed to guarantee all of the benefits of biodynamic wines, he fully realizes the changes that need to be made within a team of people. It is, a particularly small and cohesive team – unusual for an estate of over 40 hectares, which enhances the timeless conception of the world of wine – professional and friendly, if not family-minded and dedicated to precise research and the pleasure of sharing.