Portrait of Damien Landouar
i. Biography
Where They Are Now
Winemaking at Château Gaby and estate direction at Vignobles Sullivan place Damien Landouar in two linked registers: cellar work and broader oversight. Since 2016, his role as Director General has sat alongside the hands-on demands of the wine itself, with vineyard and cellar kept in the same frame. The work asks for calibration at both scales — the vintage in front of him, and the estate around it. At Château Gaby, the emphasis stays on the wine; at Vignobles Sullivan, it extends to the decisions that shape how an estate functions over time.
That combination gives Landouar’s current position its weight: continuity since 2016, with responsibility that runs from the detail of production to the wider rhythm of the property.
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Signature
2015 Château Moya and 2012 Château Moya are the wines as Damien Landouar’s signatures. Read as working references rather than decoration, they point to a winemaker whose output is understood through vintage and repetition. The same label across different years gives the clearest view of method: consistency carried across time, with each release marking its own place in the sequence. 2015 Château Moya and 2012 Château Moya sit as adjacent proof points, useful to anyone reading for range, continuity, and the way a house character holds from one vintage to the next.
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