MAISON LOUIS PLANCHOT

"The Corrézien is a migrant who, as a general rule, conceives his exile as a temporary moment in his destiny."  ( DenisTilinac )

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The Bordelaise adventure of the traveling merchants is a great adventure inaugurated around 1860 by a sumptuous character: Jean Gay-Bordas; Completed after the Second World War by Jean-Pierre Moueix, the owner of Pétrus.

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The great originality and novelty of the Corrézien wine merchant lies in door-to-door canvassing of private customers. From now on, between the wine lover and the Château Bordelais, there will only be one intermediary.

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Around 1900 the movement of emigration experienced considerable growth from the canton of Meymac in Haute-Corrèze (symbolically Meymac-prés-Bordeaux). Then the movement will reach the south of Argentat in the Dordogne valley and will affect among others the commune of Saint Chamant where the Souvigne flows and from where our ancestors left.

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In the wake of Jean Gay-Bordas, it was Jean Douvisis, a young teacher, who encouraged a large number of young people from the Argentat region to leave for the north of France and Belgium for the wine trade.

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Today, from Corrèze and Saint Emilion, we are proud to be among the last to bring to life this commercial heritage which provides wine lovers with advice, service and an irreproachable quality/price ratio, which only our trade network is able to offer.

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If it was indeed Baptiste Teilhet, our great-great-uncle, who started out in the wine business, it was above all Antoine Teilhet, our grandfather, followed by his son Roger Teilhet, who traveled hard through Belgium and Luxembourg and created very fine clienteles.

Roger Teilhet set up his wine business in Saint-Emilion in 1970 and today it is his daughter Hélène Teilhet-Planchot, supported by her Corrézien husband, Louis Planchot, who travels to the North of France, Belgium and Luxembourg. to serve in quality wines what these northern regions have the best for wine lovers. 

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Hélène and Louis Planchot remain convinced that quality wine could not be sold and cannot be sold today other than through a relationship of trust . This trust can only be earned by our regular visit to our customers to provide them with the necessary advice for each and an irreproachable quality of the wines.