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  • Weather

    11° C Moderate rain
  • Time

    07:45 AM
  • Wine average?

    93 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    355
  • Region Ranking?

    189
  • Popularity ranking?

    236

History

Bouscaut's vineyard has existed since the 17th century on the commune of Cadaujac, Graves appellation at that time. Called Haut Truchon, it was renamed Château Bouscaut after name of the place in 1881. The various owners throughout the twentieth century were very dedicated to improving and transforming both the vineyard and the château. The neighbouring property, Château Valoux, became part of Bouscaut in 1929. In the thirties, the domain was cited as being a model estate by the Chamber of Agriculture and a race horse called Château Bouscaut won first prize in the coveted Maisons Lafitte race. In the same period, a tower was added to the main residential building and cellars were erected next to it.

 

The Château  hosted illustrious French singers such as Louis Jouvet, Maurice Chevalier or Gilbert Bécaud. The winner of many medals, the wines of Château Bouscaut were widely recognised. Consecration came in 1953, when Bouscaut was awarded the envied status of Graves Cru Classé, for both its white and red wines.

 

In 1962, the château was completely destroyed by a fire while the cellars remained untouched. The owner, Victor Place, oversaw its reconstruction, to the exact original plans, before selling it to a group of investors from New York in 1968. The new owners brought in the directors of Haut-Brion to manage it.

 

Bouscaut was then acquired in 1979 by Lucien Lurton, a well known Bordeaux winemaker who already owned at least ten other prestigious châteaux in appellations such as Margaux (Brane-Cantenac), Barsac (Climens). This passionate vine-lover recognised the potential and exceptional terroir of Château Bouscaut.

 

Sophie Lurton, Lucien’s daughter has been looking after Bouscaut since 1992. Laurent Cogombles, her husband, an agricultural ingeneer, has been very involved too since 1997. Laurent  is also the present president of the appellation Pessac-Léognan.

 

Througout the years, the Lurton family has made numerous improvements to the cellars (with a circular tank room in 1990 and a concrete tank room in 2002) before complete renovation of the barrel cellars in 2010 including the building of a 400m2 cellar for the reds. This cellar has the particularity to be covered with staves... the vineyard is being replanted regularly and the white is gaining some plots. In 1990 Château Lamothe-Bouscaut was acquired : it is a 9 hectares vineyard with a nice mansion in the center of Cadaujac.

 

Nowadays, the domain continues its journey, led with enthusiasm and innovation by its owners.

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Vineyards

The Bouscaut terroir is mainly made up of clayey-gravelly soils, on a calcareous base. That of Lamothe is more gravelly, and that of Valoux is very similar to Bouscaut’s soils. The clayey-gravelly soil being the major component of Château Bouscaut’s terroir, gives the white wines a beautiful silky texture as well as a very expressive aromatic nature to both the Sauvignon Blanc and the Sémillon. This terroir also provides the white wines with outstanding aging potential, with the older wines evolving towards floral, dried fruit aromas with a smoky character…

 

These same soils also produce excellent red wines, being particularly well adapted to Merlot. The resulting wines are deep in colour and particularly rich and powerful with good tannins. Bearing in mind the low yields that we obtain, especially on the old vines, our wines are silky with a beautiful, very elegant tannic structure. The current replanting programme aims to complete this basis of Merlot with high quality Cabernet Sauvignon to be planted on the more gravelly soils.

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