Château Dauzac
Château Dauzac is a French winery in the Margaux appellation on the Médoc peninsula . Of the total area of 120 hectares , around 45 hectares are planted with vines. It received the rank of 5ième Grand Cru in the Bordeaux wine classification in 1855 .
The vines in Margaux to be 58% with the grape variety Cabernet Sauvignon , 37% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc planted. After fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, the wine matures in barriques for at least twelve months , 50 to 80% of which are renewed depending on the vintage. Around 120,000 bottles are marketed annually.
In the past, Pascal Ribéreau-Gayon could be engaged as an external oenologist . Today Château Dauzac is accompanied and advised by the oenologist Jacques Boissenot and his son Eric.
The second wine is called La Bastide Dauzac . In addition, a third line of products under the name Château Labarde is being expanded in the Dauzac wine cellars.
history
The first vineyards were laid out in the 12th century by members of the monastery of Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux ; The actual winery was not founded until 1740 with Count Thomas Michel Lynch and his son JB Lynch.
Born in Galway in 1669 , John Lynch came to France as part of the Wild Geese's escape . The escape of the Wild Geese refers to the emigration of an Irish Jacobean army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691. John Lynch settled in Bordeaux as a dealer in textiles, wool and leather and married Guillemette Constant. In 1710, John Lynch was naturalized as French and called himself Jean Lynch.
His son Thomas-Michel married Elisabeth Drouillard in 1740. When Elisabeth's father, Pierre Drouillard, died in 1749, his daughter inherited half of the Bourdieu de BATGES estate and paid Pierre's widow 42,000 livres to become sole property . This year represents the creation of the Château Lynch. He later acquired both lands to expand Château Lynch. Château Dauzac also belonged to the Lynch family. In 1855 it was raised to the status of a fifth plant in the then newly introduced classification of Bordeaux wines.
Nathanial Johnston acquired the estate in 1865, after becoming a co-owner of Château Latour in 1840 and later also buying Château Ducru-Beaucaillou . However, the upswing of the estate was suddenly interrupted by the phylloxera disaster and the downy mildew that appeared shortly afterwards . The yields fell below 50% of a normal average year. Since the area around Margaux , Cantenac and Macau has been less hard hit by mildew than, say, Pauillac , it came in 1884 to the paradox that Château Cantemerle and Château Dauzac higher price for the wine than the erstklassierte Château Lafite Rothschild prevail could .
The winery was in the spotlight towards the end of the 19th century, when the Bordeaux broth was successfully tested here under the impulses of the technical director, Ernest David.
In 1988 the winery was bought by the Mutuelle d'Assurances des Instituteurs de France ( MAIF for short ), an insurance company.
The Château Dauzac winery is currently managed by André Lurton in the position of technical director.
literature
- Charles Cocks, Edouard Féret, Bruno Boidron: Bordeaux et ses vins . 18th edition. Èdition Féret et Fils, Bordeaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-35156-013-6 .
- Horst Dippel : The wine lexicon . 3. Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-13826-4 .
- Robert Parker : Parker's Wine Guide (= Collection Rolf Heyne ). Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-16305-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Les réfugiés jacobites dans la France du XVIIIe siècle , by Patrick Clarke de Dromantin, ISBN 978-2-86781-362-7