French Country Homes • Dordogne • Charente • Haute-Vienne

20/07/2026

🥃 Hennessy Rémy Martin
and Martell all start life here.

Miles & miles of vines 🍇

Here’s how it’s all done:

1. Harvest
Ugni Blanc grapes picked in here in the Charente region of France

2. Fermentation.
The juice becomes a low-alcohol base wine (no sugar added)

3. Double distilled
In copper pot stills (alambic charentais), creating "eau-de-vie" and no you can’t drink that!

4. Aged in French oak barrels which is where the magic happens (Limousin or Tronçais) for at least 2 years, often much much longer

5. Blended
By master blenders they combine eau-de-vie from different years/barrels for consistency

6. Bottled
And labeled VS, VSOP, or XO depending on age

Only brandy from this specific region, made this exact way, can legally be called Cognac everything else is just brandy.

18/07/2026

I wonder how many times I’ll walk in to view a property and want to buy it… 🤭

This one is really very pretty and the lovely British couple have put it on the market a few weeks ago with our colleague.

Two separate houses one for you, one for friends & family, gorgeous views.

Gail Evans this was basically your house haha!

The photos are beautiful but don’t do it justice, it’s very hard to take photos that make you feel like you’re inside the room.

Please feel free to share: link in comments because it won’t work here for some reason

09/07/2026

For the next few weeks our plan is to show some snippets of our local area so you can get a feel for it.

When we’re out & about on house hunting trips well do more of a tourist look at that area, we’re still tourists too 😁

And, as we get to bring homes onto the market, we’ll do the house tours!

Is there anything else you’d love to see?


This was my walk with Apollo at 9.30 last night - it’s just stunning and right behind our house.

The fragrance right now, I wish I could bottle it.

05/07/2026

Sunday jazz, pouilly fuisse & friends
Some French some English, all lovely 🤗

Lots of great places to enjoy on a Sunday even when many villages look sleepy

04/07/2026

We’re at a classic car show today!
35° is a tad warm for the pooch so we haven’t stayed long.

Of all the fancy old sports cars, my Favourite is always the dolly car.
And they have it in my favorite colour 💚

Which car would you choose?

Ps - a massive thank you to you for following our exciting new journey.
150 friends in 28 hours is bloody brilliant

Merci mes amis

No predictive text I did not want merci Mrs Amos

02/07/2026

We've done a thing...

Our life here is taking on a fresh new book, chapter one!

We both love property.

Justin ran his very successful architectural, surveying & design practice for over 20 years and has been in the industry almost 40 years.

As an assoc RICS he has supported several clients with our other new business: Charente Property Surveys

🌻 AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT... 🌻

After a chance meeting on a Ryanair flight with a director of Beaux Villages Immobilier, we are now mid-accreditation with them to find & sell gorgeous french country houses as Independent Agents.

We live close to the borders of 3 departments.
The Charente, Dordogne and Haute - Vienne.

So with our other independent Beaux Villages friends, in-house legal and marketing teams, partnerships with many specialists including currency exchange, we will very soon be in business 🌻

Thank you for connecting with our page, we aim to bring you plenty of lifestyle inspiration as well as showcase the stunning properties currently on the market.

We will share expert blogs, insights & what we're learning along the way.

If you want to join our private client list so you get all the perfect-for-you property listings first, we can add you in soon.

DM us and we'll pop you on our waitlist.

What do you reckon?

Who'd of thought it? Our 1st photo together, May 2013. My 40th birthday.

Lucy & Justin Prior ###

Lucy Prior

02/07/2026