Domaine du Grand Mayne
Appellation
AOC Côtes de Duras
Vendor
SARL Grand Mayne
Acquirers
Stichting/Foundation Raephorst – Wassenaar, The Netherlands
The vineyard estate has a loyal following of almost 1000 members and together with a well lead and long standing management team, exceptional terroir with a very well-maintained agriculture and highly acclaimed wines Domaine de Grand Mayne continues to be a leader in its appellation.
It is rare to find a vineyard with such strong B to C distribution qualities and such customer loyalty to a brand built over many years. Complex ownership structures and the nuances of international cultures are common in vineyard transactions but we tend to see them often in the more expensive and classified vineyard estates. The decades of experience in vineyard M&A work as well as our strong international expertise made the Vineyards-Bordeaux team a perfect fit for a complex ownership structure, a British seller, a Dutch buyer and a French vineyard with distribution across the world.
Client's Perspective
It gives a tremendously good feeling to be owner of Domaine du Grand Mayne and looking forward to the great challenge to turn every year into a great year, in every aspect! We will support Mathieu and his team wherever we can and trust that our GM wines will stay at beyond expectation, year after year, that would truly be great and something to really work hard for! Cheers and thank you for your support, advise, kind and wise words and professionalism.
A big thanks to you for finding the right buyer, building their confidence in Grand Mayne and then for guiding us all through the final hurdles. Best wishes to you for many more successful transactions!
At initial interview, it was clear that Michael understood our particular requirements. Once appointed, he went to great lengths to identify a buyer who would benefit from the strengths of our particular vineyard in SW France in terms of size, infrastructure and people.
Michael brought several potential buyers to see our vineyard, and sensibly focussed his efforts on a buyer who recognised the benefits of our B2C (rather than B2B) sales approach. Michael was not simply selling a vineyard for us, but acting as a consultant to the prospective buyers and matching them with the right vineyard business.