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When Baron Le Roy died in 1967, the estate passed to his son Henri Le Roy. In 1994, Henri's son Bruno Le Roy took over as manager and continued managing the estate until 2004. Since 2001 until now, Didier Robert from ICV served as a consulting enologist and the quality of the wines increased. Since
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The early plans for the INAO and AOC appellation were drawn up by Baron Le Roy in 1923 after a series of meetings among Châteauneuf-du-Pape growers. The growers were responding to the rising
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techniques, under Le Roy's guidance Châteauneuf-du-Pape began using only manual harvesting and rejecting at least 5% of the harvest during sorting. Producers also stopped producing
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Over the course of his long career, Baron Le Roy was honored numerous times for his services to the advancement of the French wine industry. He served as president of the
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and solely focused on making red and white blends from a set of permitted grape varieties. Le Roy's plan would go on to be the
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who were producing wine. By 1783, the wine being produced from the estate was receiving favorable accolades from consumers in
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Plaque in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, commemorating the work of Château Fortia's Baron Le Roy in promoting the wines of the region.
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