Château Marquis de Terme

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The Château Marquis de Terme is a fairly well-known vineyard of Bordeaux . Since the classification of 1855 , the winery has been classified as Quatrième Grand Cru Classé (fourth level of classification).

The estate is located in the south of the Médoc in the municipality of Margaux , it is of medium size with 38 hectares . On average, it produces around 180,000 bottles of red wine .

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The second wine is now called Les Gondats de Marquis de Terme . This wine used to be marketed under the name Château des Gondats as Bordeaux Supérieur, as not all parcels were entitled to the Margaux appellation .

history

On September 7, 1661, Pierre des Mesures de Rausan, an important trader in the region, acquired the estate from the de Gassies family. The de Gassies family was close to the feudal lords of the Seigneurie de Margaux. This winery was the origin of the now known Château Rauzan-Gassies , Château Rauzan-Ségla , Château Desmirail and Château Marquis de Terme. Pierre des Mesures de Rausan was also tenant of Château Margaux since 1661 and of Château Latour since 1679 . The property acquired in 1661 resulted in the still known Château Rauzan-Gassies, Château Rausan-Ségla , Château Desmirail and Château Marquis de Terme.

The name "Marquis de Terme" appears for the first time in 1762 with the marriage of Ledoulx d'Emplet to the Marquis de Terme François de Peguilhan. The couple owned 30 hectares of land and the wine enjoyed a good reputation. During his visit to Bordeaux from May 24th to 28th, 1787, the then ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson , paid a visit to the estate.

After the death of François de Peguilhan, the wine merchant Halvarous Sollberg acquired the estate in 1809. Sollberg was of Swedish descent and married into a wealthy French home. Sollberg made a number of purchases of various land plots and piled up a considerable mountain of debt. As a result of his non-compliant financial obligations, he had to leave France in 1834, but was able to regain the estate in 1845.

On the occasion of the world exhibition in 1855, the winery was ranked fourth. At that time, Halvarou's son Oscar was already running the estate. Financially weakened by the phylloxera disaster and the mildew infestation , the estate was available for purchase in 1886. Fréderic Eschenhauer, a wine merchant from Bordeaux, took over Château Marquis de Terme. At that time, Thomas Feuillerat was in charge of the property's technical management. When Eschenhauer had to sell the estate in 1898, Jean Feuillerat, Thomas' son, took it over. Later Jean's son Armand Feuillerat inherited the property. After Armand's death in 1935, Pierre Sénéclauze, a trader from Marseille, bought property and land.

Today his sons Jean, Philippe and Pierre-Louis Sénéclauze run the estate.

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  1. ↑ 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. 169 .