Château Suduiraut
The winery Château Suduiraut located south of the community Preignac, a part of the Appellation d' Origine Sauternes in the Bordeaux wine region. In the Bordeaux Wine Classification of 1855 it was classified as " Premier Cru ". The estate has nearly 200 acres of land, of which 92 hectares are devoted to viticulture. The vineyards are located near the famous Château d' Yquem not far.
The Sémillon grape variety represents the biggest share with a stocked area of 90 percent. In addition, 10% Sauvignon Blanc are mixed. The average age of the vines is 25 years and the vines is at 7,000 vines / hectare. The harvest is done by hand in several reading programs, in order to select the grapes with noble rot. After the expectant wine by the alcoholic fermentation of an alcoholic strength of 13 - reached 14 percent, it is pumped into stainless steel tanks and for 4 - 5 days cooled to 7 ° C. The wine matures after the sulfurization 18-24 months in barriques. From Grand Vin almost 100,000 bottles are filled annually. In the vintages 1991, 1992 and 1993, but no Grand Vin was filled, because the result did not meet the quality specifications and an artificial concentration of the wine does not correspond to means cryoextraction the quality philosophy.
The second wine is called Castelnau de Suduiraut. In addition, the estate markets still a dry white wine named S de Suduiraut; a name given the products R de Rieussec (→ Château Rieussec ) and G de Guiraud (→ Château Guiraud ) is not really original. The berries for the dry white wine to be obtained during the first three reading operations, providing about 10% of the total wine production of the goods represent a blend in which the berries are read individually, ie Crème de Tête, however, was made only twice.
In 2008 joined next to Château Suduiraut still 16 wineries of Bordeaux, including such well-known as Château d' Yquem, Château Olivier and Chateau La Tour Blanche in a joint project together with the aim to retighten own clones of the vine Sémillon scarcer werdendem vine material.
History
The history of the winery began in 1592, when Léonard de Suduiraut, member of the Parlement of Bordeaux Nicole d' Allard married. Nicole was the sole heiress of the lands on which the present estate was built. During almost 50 years could develop undisturbed the estate, the family de Suduiraut. At the time of the Fronde, however, the family fell out with the royalist Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette, Duke of Épernon. As a result, the estate was looted and gebranntschatzt 1648-1649. Léonard grandson, the Count de Blaise Suduiraut built 1665-1675 one of the most stunning manor houses of Bordeaux, leaving the gardens of André Le Nôtre to create.
After the death of Blaise de Suduiraut, who was married to Gabrielle Angélique de Pontac, the property went first to his daughter Marie- Anne and later to his nephew by Marie -Anne, Joseph du Roy (son of Catherine de Suduiraut and Jean du Roy ). Joseph named the estate into Ancien Cru du Roy.
After the death of Joseph the property passed to his only son, Jean, and later to Louis -Guillaume du Roy. Whose last name was also written frequently Duroi or Duroy. His marriage to Marie-Rose was apparently childless, she bequeathed the estate after the death of Louis -Guillaume to the employee Nicolas Edme Guillot. Under his administration the Good took a big upswing. In the family archives of the Guillot de Suduiraut family is still the correspondence of Nicolas obtain with his nephew Dominique Doutreleau, who settled as a wine merchant in Guadeloupe and imported wines from Suduiraut. Nicolas Edme Guillot bought in 1831, the Good neighborly of Castelnau and extended his possessions so much from. The name of the second wine of the estate is reminiscent of that time.
When the classification of the vineyards of Bordeaux was published in 1855, the management of the estate was for the sons of Nicolas Edme. In 1875 they sold the property to the Industrial Henri -Ferdinand Rabourdin (1812 - 1898), who had made his fortune in the paper industry. However, hardly four years later, he bequeathed the estate to his daughter Lucie, who was married to Charles Émile Antoine Petit de Forest.
The couple came to it, that winery to guide you through the difficult time of the phylloxera disaster and the infestation with the mildew. Petit de Forest led the fight against phylloxera very early the technique of Rebpfropfung on resistant rootstocks one. After the death of Charles Émile Antoine in 1899, his wife Lucie led the winery until the year 1929. Upon her death the property passed to her daughter Isabelle Petit de Forest. Isabelle and her husband Alfred de Girodon - Pralong However, it was not possible to keep the quality level of the wines. Added to this was that were the sweet wines more and more displaced by the dry -developed wines on the market. The estate therefore had to be sold to the industrialist Leopold -François Fonquernie after an unsuccessful attempt with dry wines in 1940. Fonquernie and his winemaker Pierre Pascaud could the reputation of the estate due to extensive investments in the vineyard and cellar consolidate again. After the death of Léopold his daughters took over the management of the estate, continued to work with Pierre Pascaud and wore this in 1978 the management of the daily business. In 1992, however, the family separated by Château Suduiraut and sold it to the insurance company AXA Millesime. AXA had already begun in the 1980s to invest in Bordeaux. Besides Suduiraut Château Pichon Longueville -Baron and Château Lynch -Bages was one already in the portfolio.
The daily business is now managed by Christian Seely while Pierre Montégut holds the post of technical director.