Château Peby Faugeres is a 20-acre Grand Cru estate in the St.-Emilion appellation. Though the estate has a long history, it didn’t start bottling and marketing its own wine until 1998 when owner Pierre-Bernard Guisez hired consulting winemaker Michel Rolland to improve quality. Since then reviewers have been highly complimentary of this 100% Merlot wine. Robert M. Parker Jr. notes that “since its debut vintage, Peby Faugeres has fashioned prodigious wines from its tiny hillside vineyard…” In 2005 the estate was bought by businessman Silvio Danz, owner of Lalique art glass company, several international wine merchant firms, and a number of wineries in Bordeaux, Tuscany and Catalonia. There is no second wine. About 20,000 bottles are produced annually.