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In the mid-1990s, around 10 years after he wowed the wine world with the first vintage of his Cabernet Sauvignon-based Pahlmeyer Proprietary Red, wanted to do the same with and began searching for a vineyard. Working with a close friend who was a wine importer, he located two plots for sale in and arranged for his winemaker Helen Turley to work hand-in-hand with Michel Niellon at his winery in . Pahlmeyer’s daughter Cleo tells Robb Report that the deal fell through after the papers were signed due to a Burgundian real estate law that allows right of first refusal to locals. “After that disappointing experience, Jayson set his sights closer to home,” she says.

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