A Family Adventure

The history of Domaine Dupuy de Lôme begins in the 19th century with the famous maritime engineer Stanislas Charles Henry Dupuy de Lôme (1816-1885), who began his career at the arsenal of Toulon.

This illustrious engineer is at the origin of numerous inventions in the field of shipbuilding, including the world’s first “steam-powered liner, the Napoleon”, launched in 1850; the development of the armor process with the « Gloire » in 1852; and the construction of the first truly operational submarine, the “Gymnote“, which is said to have probably inspired the description of Jules Verne equally famous Nautilus in his work Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

In 1903, his daughter acquired the “Grès” site as well as its vineyard, in Sainte-Anne d’Evenos, which is today the cradle of the cellar.

In 2006, two of his descendants, Benoit Cossé and Geoffroy Perouse, decided, with their families, to restructure the vineyard, conserving the old vines and planting selected grape varieties.