Glenelly has a rich history dating back to 1682, but it was in 2003 that the estate went from strength to strength. At the age of 78, May de Lencquesaing, then owner of Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, a Grand Cru Classé from Pauillac, Bordeaux, purchased the estate. With a nod to the French Huguenot settlers 300 years before, she set about planting vines to replace the existing fruit trees, and Glenelly was reborn. Sustainability is big at Glenelly. Biodiversity is promoted in the vineyards, water is purified and recycled on the vines and in the winery, electricity consumption is kept to a minimum, whilst 160 different spices of wildlife thrive on the land.