Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse
The Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse (also "Beauséjour" without name affix) is a French winery and is located in the Saint-Émilion area . It produces red wine of the Saint Émilion Grand Cru appellation with the second highest Premier Grand Cru Classé B classification, see also the article Bordeaux wine (classification) .
The vineyards of Beauséjour-Duffau-Lagarrosse grow on a terroir mixture of limestone and clay and are located on the plateau of Saint-Emilion.
The winery has a vineyard area of 6.8 hectares ; the average age of the vines is 35 years. The planting density is 6,600 vines per hectare. The current planting is 70% of the Merlot grape variety , 20% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon .
The wines from Beauséjour-Duffau-Lagarrosse have constantly improved since the mid-1980s. The 1990s wine is considered a modern wine legend and was rated as a “perfect wine” with 100 Parker points . It is extremely difficult to find in stores.
history
In the Middle Ages, the monks of the Saint-Martin Abbey cultivated the Beauséjour vineyards. They later came into the possession of the Gerès family. By marriage in 1722 François de Carle, the owner of Château Figeac , acquired the as yet undivided Beauséjour. Due to financial difficulties, Armand de Carle-Trajet sold Beauséjour to Charles Trocquart in 1823. In 1847 he sold it to his cousin Pierre-Paulin Ducarpe, who split it up in 1869. The later owners each attached their names to those of the châteaus. The Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was created from the split off part .
Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse went to the daughter of Ducarpe, who had married the doctor Duffau-Lagarrosse. The property includes the former birth house of Ducarpe as well as the Saint-Martin chapel from the 11th century.
The manager of Château Pavie-Macquin , Nicolas Thienpont, was commissioned in 2009 to fully exploit the quality potential of the estate with the help of oenologists Michel Rolland and Stéphane Derenoncourt .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clive Coates : The wines of Bordeaux. Vintages and tasting notes 1952 - 2003 . 1st edition. University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0-297-84317-6 , pp. 198 .
- ↑ http://www.decanter.com/news/282883.html Rolland, Derenoncourt take on Chateau Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse, by Panos Kakaviatos in Decanter .com, published on May 19, 2009