Château Romer du Hayot

Château Romer du Hayot is a classified as Deuxième Cru Classé winery in the town of Fargues Sauternes within the wine growing area in Bordeaux. The wine is a classic blend of the grape varieties Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. With an area under vines of 15 acres, the winery is one of the smaller of the classified estates of the vineyard. The annual production is about 25,000 bottles.

The Rebsortenmix consists of 70% from the vine Sémillon, 25 % Sauvignon Blanc and 5% Muscadelle from the aromatic varieties. The mean age of the vines is 35 years. In addition to the Grand Vin, the winery also fills a second wine, the Château du Hayot Andoyse.

History

The winery was founded probably already in the seventeenth century by the family Montalier. As in 1800, Ferdinand Auguste de Lur - Saluces married a descendant of the founder, Marie Thérèse Gabrielle de Montalier, was the winery short time part of the wine empire of the family Lur - Saluces. Their daughter Louise Alexandrine married in 1824 to Anne Auguste Comte Jacques de la Myre Mory. In 1855, the year of the Bordeaux Classification, the winery was named Château Romer. 1881, the estate was divided into a number of shares in estates of the family Myre Mory. The individual plots were provisionally administered by one of the direct heirs, the Comtesse Beaurepaire- Louvagny, as a whole. However, in 1911, the Erbgemeinschaft sold about five acres to Roger Farges. This parcel is the foundation of today's Château Romer.

The remaining nine or ten acres bought in 1937 Xavier Dauglade and Madame du Hayot. Since then, the winery is the property of you Hayot family. The original manor house was the early 1970s, the construction of the European Route 72 to the victim. The wines have since been expanded in the cellars of Château Guiteronde