Since retiring from his career as an executive with Moët Hennessy Group and LVMH in 2012, Philippe Pascal has been an investor in underappreciated French wine regions. Now that Cellier aux Moines, his first enterprise in Givry, a less-celebrated appellation in Burgundy’s Côte Chalonnaise region, is off the ground, he is launching the label of Mont Bessay in Juliénas, one of the 10 designated crus in Beaujolais, and one of the more underrated. Read more!
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