Saint-Emilion

Producer history

Château Faugères has been documented back to at least 1823, when it passed into the Guisez family. The estate was inherited in 1987 by Pierre-Bernard Guisez, known to friends as Péby, and his wife Corinne, who ran the property together producing Saint-Émilion and Côtes de Castillon wines. When Péby died on 25 October 1997 at age 52, Corinne and their daughters continued the estate and created a special cuvée in his honor — first made in the 1998 vintage from the oldest Merlot plots — named Péby Faugères. In 2005 the family sold the estate to Swiss businessman Silvio Denz, who has continued to produce Péby Faugères as the estate's flagship wine alongside the standard Château Faugères bottling.

Signature pairings

• Duck breast with dark cherry reduction — The wine's dense dark-fruit and chocolate-toned oak find a natural match in duck's richness, and a cherry-based sauce echoes the fruit profile directly.
• Dark chocolate torte with berry coulis — The wine's own chocolate and dark-berry character from new oak and old-vine Merlot make a matching-flavor pairing with a not-overly-sweet dark chocolate dessert.
• Massaman lamb curry (แกงมัสมั่นแกะ) — Massaman's mild heat and warm spices (cinnamon, star anise) pair with the wine's opulent dark fruit and oak spice; the wine's soft, ripe tannin (from old-vine Merlot rather than Cabernet) tolerates the dish's gentle chili better than a more tannic Cabernet-based wine would.