Our Story

The Hotel de Pavie was once a convent where nuns offered shelter and protection to pilgrims and travelers…

the revolution, the building became a coaching inn. Its next life was as an inn, and then a hotel restaurant. In 1927 it was christened Hostellerie de Plaisance. Post-World War Two, the place was used as an inn and dance hall.

Villagers gathered on the terrace to dance and meet. The guinguette closed its doors in the 1960s to make way for a hotel restaurant.

The Perse Family became the hosts of this renowned House in 2001.

In 2007, the hotel was extended and transformed with the acquisition of an old house with Roman tiles. This Village House is connected to the Main House by crossing and strolling around our pretty gardens and by taking a glass elevator carved into the rock.

The garden courtyard of the Hôtel de Pavie is located just a few meters from the steps where it is said that Ausone liked to meditate.

In September 2020, a new chapter is being written and our entity, Perse Latitudes, is accelerating its development in collaboration with the famous Michelin-starred Chef Yannick Alléno.

Through this new dynamic, we wish to strengthen ties with Château Pavie, owned by the Perse Family. Hostellerie de Plaisance thus becomes Hotel de Pavie and its restaurant La Table de Pavie.

Previously the Perse Family was at the head of a large supermarket chain in the Paris area. When they were still only a young couple, Gerard and Chantal Perse developed a great passion for wine that they had never been able to express themselves. They found their happiness in 1993 with Château Monbousquet in the heart of our beautiful region in Saint-Emilion with which they had really fallen in love. In 1998 they realized their dream by becoming owners of Château Pavie which was promoted to 1er Grand Cru Classé A of Saint-Emilion in 2012.

Today, the Perse Family oversees the exceptional vinification of three prestigious properties: Château Pavie, Château Pavie Decesse and Château Monbousquet. This unconventional path towards Saint-Emilion and its vineyards shows that exceptional wine is not always the product of a long family tradition

Since 2000, Chantal Perse and her daughter Angelique Da Costa have made the Hôtel de Pavie an exceptional place in the heart of Saint-Emilion, dedicated to the art of living, with unreserved energy in all its dimensions.