Perrin Joins Primum Familiae Vini

Then eleven when the Robert Mondavi family resigned after Constellation bought the family enterprise. With the sale of the Paul Jaboulet Aîné company the ranks of Primum Familiae Vini fell to ten but this week the association of family-based wineries moved back to eleven members when it announced the admission of the Perrin family, owners of southern Rhone's Château de Beaucastel since 1909 and run today by the 4th and 5th generations.

Château de Beaucastel produces about 20,000 cases a year of red and white wines which have helped attract global attention to the historic Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation.

The Perrin family also owns Perrin & Fils, a company that produces wines from the terroirs of the southern Rhône Valley (Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Rasteau, Vinsobres...)

One of Perrin & Fils' aims is to prove to the world that the Southern Rhône is a complex mosaic of distinctive terroirs, not just one vast vineyard producing uniform Côtes du Rhone reds.

The Perrin family joins Antinori, Marchesi Antinori, Tuscany, Italy; Incisa della Rocchetta (Sassicaia), Tenuta San Guido, Bolgheri, Tuscany, Italy; Drouhin, Maison Joseph Drouhin, Beaune, Burgundy, France; Pol Roger, Champagne Pol Roger, Epernay, Champagne, France; Hugel, Hugel & Fils, Riquewihr, Alsace, France; Rothschild, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Pauillac, France; Torres, Miguel Torres, Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain; Álvarez, Vega Sicilia, Valbuena del Duero, Spain; Symington, The Symington Family Port Companies, Oporto and Douro, Portugal; Egon Müller-Scharzhof, Müller-Scharzhof, Wiltingen, Saar, Germany.