Bordeaux, France
It was in 1949 when Abel Rigou, wine-grower and distiller of Cognac in St.-Martin of Ary, bought Château Montaiguillon. His daughter Genevieve married Roger Amart in 1949, and together they dedicated their lives to put everything back in order.
Fully understanding the need to sell wine in a bottle, Roger Amart left the Chateau in 1950 to look for customers in Belgium. This remained the first market of Montaiguillon for about 30 years.
Genevieve and Roger Amart had 3 children – Michel, Monique, and Chantal – all partners in the family business.
Since the death of her parents in 2008, and her brother Michels death in 2011, Chantal Amart Ternault now assumes sole management of the property. She pursues, with the same passion and the same qualitative excellence in mind, the family traditions started more than 60 years earlier.