The first thing I noticed wasn't the house. It was the driveway. Lined with mature trees, it set the tone before anything else — this was a place that had its own pace, its own presence. I drove up slowly, and by the time the house came into view, golden stone facing due south, I already knew this visit was going to stay with me.
Nineteen uninterrupted hectares surround the property — meadows, woodland, open sky — and yet Saint-Émilion and its grand cru vineyards are just minutes away. The Tgv station is twenty-five minutes, the international airport an hour. That rare combination of total peace and genuine connectivity is not something you come across every day.
Inside, the house tells a story. Exposed stone walls, oak beams, a generous fireplace in the living room that has clearly seen many winter evenings. The light pours in from the south, the volumes are warm and generous, and the independent self-contained annexe opens up possibilities you start imagining from the very first room.
Outside is where it really gets interesting. The outbuildings are surprisingly extensive for a property of this human scale — stables, barns, workshops, each one calling out a different idea, a different project. One barn stopped me in my tracks : its structure, its proportions, its quiet. I immediately pictured a seminar space, a yoga studio, an artist's retreat. The swimming pool is there. The well too. And in the meadows beyond, sheep were grazing without a care in the world.
This estate asks for some love and attention, and that is precisely what makes it an opportunity. A rare one, in an exceptional corner of the South-West of France, waiting for someone with vision to make it entirely their own.
Call me. I'll take you there.

Annie Pezat, Independent Agent
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