{"id":146,"date":"2015-02-12T21:08:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/2015\/?page_id=146"},"modified":"2022-02-02T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:47:11","slug":"renaissance-of-the-estate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/renaissance-of-the-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance of the estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The 1990s: a turning point<\/h2>\n<p>Despite its long history among the great Bordeaux wines, it was only at the end of the 20th century that Ch\u00e2teau Brown was finally restored to glory. Guided by cereals-industry businessman <strong>Bernard Barthe<\/strong>, who became its owner in 1994, and under the supervision of <strong>Bruno Patrouilleau<\/strong>, the technical director, the estate undertook a genuine renaissance with a programme of considerable investments in the vines and facilities. With the focus on wine quality, the first investments were made in the vineyard, replanting many plots, installing an underground drainage network, renovating and extending the buildings and buying in more barrels\u2026 The wines of Ch\u00e2teau BROWN built themselves a sound reputation and found their rightful place once again among distributors and in winelovers\u2019 cellars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cent wp-image-3710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bruno-patrouilleau-382x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bruno-patrouilleau-382x255.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bruno-patrouilleau-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bruno-patrouilleau-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bruno-patrouilleau-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bruno-patrouilleau.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><p>Bruno Patrouilleau, technical director since 1994<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2343\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cent wp-image-2343 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/JC-Mau-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/JC-Mau-2-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/JC-Mau-2-1-382x276.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/JC-Mau-2-1-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p>Jean-Christophe Mau, owner since 2004<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1990s: a turning point Despite its long history among the great Bordeaux wines, it was only at the end of the 20th century that Ch\u00e2teau Brown was finally restored to glory. Guided by cereals-industry businessman Bernard Barthe, who became its owner in 1994, and under the supervision of Bruno Patrouilleau, the technical director, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-heritage.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"actualites":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"franck","author_link":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/author\/franck\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The 1990s: a turning point Despite its long history among the great Bordeaux wines, it was only at the end of the 20th century that Ch\u00e2teau Brown was finally restored to glory. Guided by cereals-industry businessman Bernard Barthe, who became its owner in 1994, and under the supervision of Bruno Patrouilleau, the technical director, the\u2026","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}