Sellers: Barbarin family
Buyer: Château de Malleret Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel 

Wine Experts acting as exclusive financial advisor for the sellers in relation to the transaction

Château Biston-Brillette is a renowned Cru Bourgeois Supérieur of the Moulis appellation, located in the heart of the Médoc wine Region.
The property covers 38 hectares and benefits from a 28 hectares vineyard divided into two complementary plots:
- a plot located at lieu-dit Petit-Poujeaux, featuring both gravelly and clay-limestone terroirs
- a plot located at lieu-dit Guitignan, featuring a deep draining gravel terroir
The Estate promotes a very active direct marketing, both to individuals and professionals, to distribute its production of 150,000 bottles per year.
Château Biston-Brillette is clearly one of the main references of the Moulis appellation.
Through this strategic acquisition, Château de Malleret, Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel, strengthens its presence in the Médoc region and takes a strategic position in a neighboring municipal appellation.

Sellers: Laurent Denormandie & associates
Buyer: Groupe Chêne & Cie

Wine Experts acting as exclusive financial advisor to the buyer in relation to the transaction.

SYLVABOIS is a logging and primary processing company, created in 1988 by Laurent Denormandie, specializing in high quality wood.

The company develops different activities within the wood sector:
- Logging in Ile de France, Picardy, Normandy, Val de Loire, West Region and Poitou-Charentes
- Sawmill in Tavaux and Pontsericourt
- Wood Energy
- Merranderie in Fontenille in Deux-Sèvres

Through this strategic acquisition, the Group Chêne & Cie strengthens its presence in the upstream sector.

Sellers: Maison Boinaud - Cognac
Sector: production of oak extracts

Wine Experts has been assigned to deliver a valuation of the company and to analyse the competitive standing of the company and its potential in the Wine & Spirits industry

 
Biossent is a subsidiary of Maison Boinaud, a family group established in the 17th century, in the heart of the Cognac Grande Champagne region.
Biossent produces oak extracts for Wines & Spirits in France and internationally and offers a replacement solution for barrels, allowing a reduction in investment costs and aging time.
Biossent distributes its products under two main brands:
- Boisé Selection for spirits and in particular Cognacs
- Oenotan for wines

In the context of the sale of the company, Wine Experts has been assigned by a prospective buyer to deliver a valuation of the company and an expertise of the potential of the company.

TFF Group finally announced the acquisition of Biossent in september 2023. 

Sellers: Jean et Martine Donnay  
Buyer: Chivas Brothers Limited (Scotland), subsidiary of the Pernod Ricard Group (France)

Wine Experts acting as financial advisor to the sellers, in relation to the transaction

Following the sale of their historic Glann ar Mor Distillery in Brittany, advised by Wine Experts in 2020, Jean and Martine Donnay wanted to restart their project of creating a new Distillery in Scotland, on the island of Islay, the Mecca for great Scottish peated single malts, which brings together the renowned Distilleries Lagavalin, Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte, Caol Ila, Bowmore and Port Ellen…

An exceptional site on Islay was selected with care by Jean and Martine Donnay, at an historic place called Gartbreck, located on the banks of Loch Indall, opposite of the Bruichladdish and Port Charlotte Distilleries. Then they obtained authorization to set up a new Distillery on this privileged site.

The site and this ambitious project are transferred to Chivas Bothers, the Scottish subsidiary of the Pernod Ricard group.

Concerning Jean Donnay:
Jean Donnay was elected "Whisky Distillery Manager of the year" in 2014.
His Kornog peated Whisky was awarded “European Whisky of the Year” in 2016 in the Whisky Bible and was selected in 2018 in the top 10 of the best peated Whiskies on the planet by the American magazine “Whisky Advocate”.
In 15 years, Kornog has won numerous Gold Liquid Awards and has thus entered the Jim Murray's "Superstar Whisky" category (score > 94/100).
His Glann ar Mor non peated Whisky was also elected n°1 of the non-peated French Whiskies, by the Revue des Vins de France (RVF).

Concerning Chivas Brothers:
Chivas Brothers is the subsidiary of the Pernod Ricard Group, dedicated to Scottish Whiskys. Chivas Brothers holds a portfolio of internationally recognized malts and blends, including The Glenlivet, Royal Salute, Chivas Regal and Ballantine’s and is therefore investing in its first distillery on the island of Islay.

Sellers: De Wulf family
Buyer: Moët Hennessy - LVMH Group, through Château d'Esclans

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Domaine du Jas d'Esclans, a 65 ha property belonging to the De Wulf family since 2002, is a gem of the Provencal vineyard, recognized as a Cru Classé during the 1955 Provence classification, a very closed circle of only 18 Crus in the Côtes de Provence Appellation of Origin (AOP).

This wine estate is located in the municipality of La Motte, at the foot of the Estérel massif and in the heart of the famous Esclans valley, with a 180 degree view of the Gorges de Pennafort up to the rock of Roquebrune.

Benefiting from a vineyard of ~50 hectares, on clayey-sandstone Permian soils, high level terroirs, Domaine du Jas d'Esclans is the precursor of organic farming in Provence, with a bio certification (AB) obtained from the first ECOCERT certifications in 1990.

The Estate also operates the Château de Vaucouleurs, a ~45 ha property including ~25 ha of vineyard, in the municipality of Puget-sur-Argens, also managed in organic farming.

The two properties constitute a land base of ~110 ha including ~75 ha of vineyard.

Comments from the sellers, Matthieu & Gwenaëlle De Wulf :

« Dear Frederic,
thank you for your expertise and all of your work during the sale process of our Wine Estates in Provence.
Indeed, without you, this complicated transaction could have gone wrong. You were able to understand all our problems and greatly contributed to the successful conclusion of the transaction.
Congratulations for this sucess without any fail.
Sincerely »