Château Romer du Hayot
Château Romer du Hayot is a Deuxième Cru Classé classified winery in the commune of Fargues within the Sauternes wine-growing region in Bordeaux . The wine is a classic blend of the Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc grape varieties . With 15 hectares of vines, the winery is one of the smaller of the classified goods in the wine-growing region. The annual production volume is around 25,000 bottles.
The mix of grapes consists of 70% the Sémillon grape, 25% Sauvignon Blanc and 5% the aromatic Muscadelle . The average age of the vines is 35 years. In addition to the Grand Vin , the winery also bottles a second wine , the Château Andoyse du Hayot .
history
The winery was probably founded by the Montalier family in the seventeenth century. When Ferdinand Auguste de Lur-Saluces married a descendant of the founder, Marie Thérèse Gabrielle de Montalier in 1800, the winery was briefly part of the Lur-Saluces family's wine empire. Their daughter Louise Alexandrine married Comte Anne Auguste Jacques de la Myre-Mory in 1824. In 1855, the year of the Bordeaux classification , the winery was named Château Romer. In 1881 the winery was divided into a large number of small inheritance shares from the Myre-Mory family. The individual parcels were temporarily managed as a whole by one of the direct heirs, the Comtesse Beaurepaire-Louvagny. In 1911, however, the community of heirs sold approximately five hectares to Roger Farges. This parcel is the basis of today's Château Romer .
The remaining nine or ten hectares were bought by Xavier Dauglade and Madame du Hayot in 1937. Since then, the winery has been owned by the du Hayot family. The original manor building fell victim to the construction of Europastraße 72 in the early 1970s . Since then, the wines have been matured in the cellars of Château Guiteronde.
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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexis Lichine: Alexis Lichine's Encyclopedia of Wines and Spirits . Cassell & Company, London 1967, p. 615.
- ↑ vinopedia.com