Château Rauzan-Gassies

Château Rauzan-Gassies is a Deuxième Cru Classé winery in the Margaux wine-growing region in the Bordelais . The estate covers 30 hectares of planted area.

The average age of the vines is 25 years. The tillering is classic with the grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon (65%), Merlot (25%) and Cabernet Franc (10%). The wines mature in barriques for 15-18 months , 25 percent of which are renewed annually.

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 the tenant of Château Margaux (since 1661) and Château Latour (since 1679). When Pierre des Mesures de Rausan died on May 10, 1692, his daughter Thérèse inherited vineyards in Pauillac (the later wineries Château Pichon-Longueville-Baron and Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse de Lalande ). Her 3 brothers Simon, Jude-Jean and Simon-Jude managed the Rozan estate in Margaux. Due to the wedding of Miss Rauzan du Ribail with Jean Desmirail and another family member with Seigneur de Peguilhan, Château Desmirail and Château Marquis de Terme were split off from the brothers' large Margaux property. The official separation of Rauzan-Gassies and Rauzan-Ségla took place on April 24, 1763. The deed was signed by Jean Baptiste de Rauzan (for the Ségla share) and Jean Roulier (for the Gassies share).

On the occasion of a visit to Bordeaux in 1787, the later US President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) visited the winery (Jefferson described the estate under the name Rozan ) and classified it in the second category .

After the estate changed hands several times, the estate was bought by Jean Paul Quié in 1946. The same family also owns the Château Croizet-Bages wineries in Pauillac and the Château Bel-Orme-Tronquoy-de-Lalande, a Cru Bourgeois estate near the commune of Saint-Emilion .

In 1992 the current owner, Jean-Michel Quié, invested in a new wine cellar. Since the end of the 1990s, the quality has returned to its reputation.

Second wine

A second wine, “Chevalier de Rauzan-Gassies”, AOC Margaux, has existed since at least 2008 . Before that, the 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999 vintages were put on the market.

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

↑ 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 .
^ Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Gutenberg Project

“Of Red wines, there are four vineyards of the first quality; viz. 1. Chateau Margau, belonging to the Marquis d'Agincourt, who makes about one hundred and fifty tons, of one thousand bottles each. He has engaged to Jernon, a merchant. 2. La Tour de Segur, en Saint Lambert, belonging to Monsieur Miresmenil, who makes one hundred and twenty-five tons. 3. Hautbrion, belonging to two thirds to M. le Comte de Femelle, who has engaged to Barton, a merchant: the other third to the Comte de Toulouse, at Toulouse. The whole is seventy-five tons. 4. Chateau de la Fite, belonging to the President Pichard, at Bordeaux, who makes one hundred and seventy-five tons. The wines of the three first, are not in perfection till four years old: those of de la Fite, being somewhat lighter, are good at three years; that is, the crop of 1786 is good in the spring of 1789. These growths, of the year 1783, sell now at two thousand livres the ton; those of 1784, on account of the superior quality of that vintage, sell at twenty-four hundred livres; those of 1785, at eighteen hundred livres; those of 1786, at eighteen hundred livres, though they had sold at first for only fifteen hundred livres. Red wines of the second quality, are Rozan , Dabbadie or Lionville, la Rose, Quirouen, Durfort; in all eight hundred tons, which sell at one thousand livres, new. The third class, are Galons, Mouton, Gassie, Arboete, Pontette, de Ferme, Candale; in all two thousand tons, at eight or nine hundred livres. After these, they are reckoned common wines, and sell from five hundred livres, down to one hundred and twenty livres, the ton. All red wines decline after a certain age, losing color, flavor, and body. Those of Bordeaux begin to decline at about seven years old. "

- Thomas Jefferson

[Coates-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 .

[2] Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Gutenberg Project

“Of Red wines, there are four vineyards of the first quality; viz. 1. Chateau Margau, belonging to the Marquis d'Agincourt, who makes about one hundred and fifty tons, of one thousand bottles each. He has engaged to Jernon, a merchant. 2. La Tour de Segur, en Saint Lambert, belonging to Monsieur Miresmenil, who makes one hundred and twenty-five tons. 3. Hautbrion, belonging to two thirds to M. le Comte de Femelle, who has engaged to Barton, a merchant: the other third to the Comte de Toulouse, at Toulouse. The whole is seventy-five tons. 4. Chateau de la Fite, belonging to the President Pichard, at Bordeaux, who makes one hundred and seventy-five tons. The wines of the three first, are not in perfection till four years old: those of de la Fite, being somewhat lighter, are good at three years; that is, the crop of 1786 is good in the spring of 1789. These growths, of the year 1783, sell now at two thousand livres the ton; those of 1784, on account of the superior quality of that vintage, sell at twenty-four hundred livres; those of 1785, at eighteen hundred livres; those of 1786, at eighteen hundred livres, though they had sold at first for only fifteen hundred livres. Red wines of the second quality, are Rozan , Dabbadie or Lionville, la Rose, Quirouen, Durfort; in all eight hundred tons, which sell at one thousand livres, new. The third class, are Galons, Mouton, Gassie, Arboete, Pontette, de Ferme, Candale; in all two thousand tons, at eight or nine hundred livres. After these, they are reckoned common wines, and sell from five hundred livres, down to one hundred and twenty livres, the ton. All red wines decline after a certain age, losing color, flavor, and body. Those of Bordeaux begin to decline at about seven years old. "

- Thomas Jefferson