Château du Tertre
The Château du Tertre is a well-known French winery . It is one of the fewer than 70 Grand Cru Classé estates and was classified as Cinquième Cru Classé in the 1855 classification. It is located in the municipality of Margaux in the Bordeaux area .
The estate covers an area of 52 hectares . The vineyards spread over 40% of the grape variety Cabernet Sauvignon , 35% Merlot , 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot . The estate produces around 300,000 bottles of red wine in normal years . Around 60–70% go to the Grand Vin . The remaining amount goes into du Tertre's second wine , Les Hauts du Tertre .
All wines since 1995 are in the high-class segment with wine ratings of at least 86 Parker points . The winery is currently owned by Eric Albada Jelgersma from the Netherlands, whose portfolio also includes the neighboring Château Giscours . Alexander van Beek is the manager of both estates who takes care of the day-to-day business. Van Beek's wife Véronique Sanders runs the day-to-day business at Château Haut-Bailly in Pessac-Léognan .
history
The property belonged to the formerly powerful Seigneurie d'Arsac. The history of this noble family can be traced back to the knight Guillaume Guiral d'Arsac in 1143. During the Hundred Years War the family was an ally of the English and had a country estate in Arsac. The land remained in the possession of this family until the late 16th century. Amanieu d'Arsac had 2 daughters, Jaquette and Maguerite. Jaquette married Thomas de Montaigne, brother of the famous Michel de Montaigne .
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 . Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-16305-2 (series = Collection Rolf Heyne).
Web links
- Château du Tertre. In: chateaudutertre.fr. July 1, 2004, accessed December 30, 2014 .
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. 170 .
- ^ Jean François Payen: Documents inédits sur Montaigne . P. Jannet, 1856, p. 1. limited preview in the Google book search