Jean-Pierre Moueix, born in Corrèze in 1913, arrived with his parents in Saint-Emilion following the 1929 depression. In 1937, he founded his wine merchant business on the Quai du Priourat in Libourne and spent his life promoting his wines internationally. His second son, Christian, joined the family business in 1970 and today owns the estate with his children, Edouard and Charlotte.

The company, while always up-to-date with the latest innovations to improve quality, maintains the highest respect for traditional values. The vineyard director, oenolog, cellar masters and technical directors dedicate their attention and experience equally to the care of the grapes in the vineyards as to the vinification and aging of the wine. The team of experienced harvesters allow for those grapes which have reached their optimum maturity to be picked rapidly. A family spirit permeates through all levels of the company, assuring a cohesion for developing markets in favorable vintages and gathering support in difficult ones.

The grapes are picked only in the afternoon, when the morning dew has evaporated, so as not to risk even the slightest dilution of quality. The composition of the topsoil and the subsoil is almost all clay. (Merlot flourishes in this soil.) The vines are unusually old and are only replanted after they reach 70 years of age. Replanting takes place plot by plot, instead of vine by vine, in order to guarantee that the average age of vines is maintained at a high level.

Jean-Pierre Moueix is synonymous with Pomerol, and no other family in Bordeaux has had such a profound influence on an entire appellation. The wines are quite different from those in the Medoc; the weather and soil vary significantly, and the primary grapes used in the region are the softer Merlot and Cabernet Franc varieties. The region itself and most of the estates in the area are tiny, resulting in limited quantities of wines that tend to be quite expensive.