Château Lagrezette, Alain Dominique Perrin's impressive castle in Cahors, France

Lisse Garnett visits Château Lagrezette, which was purchased and renovated by Alain Dominique Perrin in the 1980s. This romantic castle became his home with each apartment decorated to suit a family member. He shows her round his beautiful castle, which he has filled with antiques collected from about Europe, most especially the North of England. The castle or fortified house was built just after the Hundred Years War; prior to that the farm was known for the black wines of Cahors it produced - transported on the waters of the River Lot, these wines travelled as far afield as England where they were used to bolster wines from Bordeaux. The war put paid to this trade and the Castle dungeon or oubliette unearthed by Alain during renovations, contained human remains from this dismal period.