Saint-Émilion · Bordeaux · MMXXVI

The next 20 years don’t have to look like the last 10.

Refuge is a private estate in Saint-Émilion, shared by a small number of founding families.

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The idea

You built the company. You raised the round, ran the team, made the flight. The last ten years were spent at full speed, and the calendar shows it.

Refuge is the counterweight. A working estate in Saint-Émilion where a small group of families keep a permanent foothold — a place that is already yours when you arrive, where the days are long, the phones are quiet, and the people around the table chose the same thing you did.

Not a hotel. Not a resort. An estate, held in common by people who decided the next twenty years should look different.

The estate
Setting
Among the vineyards of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol, on Bordeaux’s Right Bank.
Form
A private estate held for the use of its members and their families.
Rhythm
Open year-round. The estate runs to the seasons of the region.
Founding memberships · 2026

Refuge opens in late 2026 with a founding group, structured in three forms.

Estate Partner

€150,000

Six partnerships.

Founding Partner

€75,000

Member

€25,000

Each form carries a founding fee and an annual retainer. Full terms, fees, and the founding agreement are set out in the prospectus, available on request.

Stewardship

Refuge is founded by Dan Barnes. The estate is held and operated under a structure built for one purpose: that it works as well in year twenty as in year one.

2026
Now

Founding conversations underway. Prospectus available on request.

Late 2026

The estate opens to members.

By invitation

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