Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey
Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey is one of the most famous wineries for the production of the sweet wine of Sauternes . The winery is located in the immediate vicinity of Château d'Yquem , near the highest point in the Bommes district.
At the time of the classification of 1855 , the vineyards still belonged to the Château Peyraguey. The estate enjoys the rank of Premier Cru.
The 37 hectare winery is planted 93% with the Sémillon grape variety , 6% with Sauvignon Blanc and 2% with Muscadelle . The average age of the vines is 40 years. The grapes are picked by hand in four to seven aisles to select the noble rotten berries. After the developing wine has reached an alcohol content of 13-14 percent through alcoholic fermentation in wooden barrels, it is pumped into stainless steel tanks and cooled down to 7 ° C for a few days and stabilized. The wine is aged 18-20 months after the sulfurization barrels that are renewed annually to 30 percent. From Grand Vin 30 to 40.000 bottles are filled annually.
From the second wine : Since 2014, two dry white wines have been produced at Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey: around 10,000 bottles each of “Grand Vin blanc Sec” and “Le Lys de Lafaurie-Peyraguey”.
history
The origins of the estate are in the dark. It is only known that from 1618 the citizen Raymond Peyraguey owned an estate and extensive lands in Bommes. Château Peyraguey was bought on July 17, 1742 by Baron Nicolas-Pierre de Pichard, then President of the local Parliament of Bordeaux . De Pichard later also owned the Coutet and Lafite wineries . During the French Revolution , de Pichard was executed on June 30, 1794 and the estate became state property. For almost 2 years, the winery known as Château Pichard-Peyraguey was leased to a local winemaker called Vignon. On June 22nd, 1796, Mr. Lafaurie bought the estate and its lands for 79,500 francs. Lafaurie helped the winery gain a reputation. In 1837 Lafaurie bequeathed the winery to his two sons. In 1860 a widow Lafaurie married the journalist and writer Jean Saint-Rieul-Dupouy. He made the winery known at the Spanish royal court and contributed to the increasing popularity of the wines of Peyraguey. King Alfonso XII of Spain was a great admirer of the wines of Château Pichard-Peyraguey. However, the couple sold the winery in 1865 to Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel , a former interior minister of Ludwig Philip I and a member of the Institut de France and owner of Château Lagrange . Duchâtel invested considerable sums in the estate and the vineyards. The current appearance of the Lafaurie-Peyraguey manor buildings is largely the result of these investments.
After his death in 1879, Château Pichard-Peyraguey went to his granddaughter Charlotte de Trémoille and was split up shortly afterwards. The now independent part of Château Clos Haut-Peyraguey went to a pharmacist from Paris, Mr Grillon, while the larger part was taken over by the dealers Farinel and Grédy under the name of Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey.
It was up to the wine merchants to lead the winery through the difficult times of the phylloxera disaster and the mildew infestation . In 1913, the now sole owner Frederic Grédy enlarged the land by acquiring a district called Barrail Peyraguey . In 1917, however, due to the crisis during the First World War, he had to sell the winery to the dealer Désiré Cordier, who subsequently acquired the goods Château Gruaud-Larose and Château Talbot .
The Cordier family kept Lafaurie-Peyraguey until 1984 and added 4.5 hectares from the Château d'Arche portfolio to the property . The estate was sold to the Suez Groupe, now known as GDF Suez . In 2014, Silvio Denz , owner of the Lalique crystal manufacture and the two Saint-Emilion Grands Crus Classés wineries Château Faugères and Château Péby-Faugères, took over Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey. Professor Denis Dubourdieu acted as partner and oenologist .
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 .
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Coordinates: 44 ° 32 ′ 58.7 " N , 0 ° 20 ′ 15.5" W.