The barrel of Olivier Dabadie and Sébastien Faure won first prize at the Pacherenc d'Or this year, raising the stakes to €5,400.
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second prize last year with a barrel removed for €6,600, Olivier Dabadie and Sébastien Faure, also accustomed to the rewards of this auction, finally won the first prize during this 2024 edition of the Pacherenc d'Or, with a barrel sold this time for €5,400.
This event, organized since 2002 by the winegrowers of Plaimont and the Crouseilles cellar, highlights each year “the originality and excellence of the white wines of Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh”appellation of the Pyrenean foothills wedged between Gascony and Béarn. The appellation is shared between dry and sweet white wines.
More than €5,000
Fifteen barrels (including four dry Pacherenc and four organic) were offered to professionals (wine merchants, restaurateurs, international buyers) during the auction of this 23rd edition, still at the Château de Crouseilles. It was the organic Pacherenc from Olivier Dabadie and Sébastien Faure, grown in the town of Viella, which won the highest bid, placed by a loyal buyer of Plaimont wines (Cairy no. 5, in Saint-Quentin, Aisne). They are ahead of Véronique and Didier Terrade, winners in 2019, whose Pacherenc 100% petit Manseng resulted in a bid of €5,100.
Sylvain Lesbats and Charles Malabirade both share 3rd place with the same bidding level at €5,000. The sum collected by the sale is paid to a work to promote the heritage of the Vic-Bilh region: renovation, rehabilitation or development of sites in the wine-growing communities of the Pacherenc appellation.
