Château

Château Clarisse

shah-TOH klah-REES
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Capitals mark the stressed syllable. The French r comes from the back of the throat. The recording is the reference.

A young Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion, founded in 2009 by Didier and Olivia Le Calvez and named for their daughter, where Chardonnay has grown on former red-wine land since 2020.

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The château

Didier and Olivia Le Calvez both grew up near vines, he in the Gironde and she in the Haut-Médoc. They founded Château Clarisse in 2009 on the heights of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion and gave it their daughter’s name; the first vintage was the 2010. The estate covers 24 hectares on a plateau 100 meters up, a few minutes from Saint-Émilion, with 4 hectares of woods and 4 left fallow. The soils are clay and limestone, in places clay and silica, over the Oligocene limestone full of fossil starfish. The farming is reasoned: the soils are worked mechanically, hedges and trees go in among the parcels, every grape is picked by hand, and beehives are planned for 2027.

In 2020 the couple planted Chardonnay on land that had grown red wine, and they expect it to reach about 30% of the vineyard; they have also brought back Carmenère, Petit Verdot and Malbec. The range is a Chardonnay sold as a Vin de France; Château Clarisse and Château Clarisse Vieilles Vignes, both Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion from Merlot and Cabernet Franc; and Cuvée Allegria, a Merlot of Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. Tiphanie Bondu has run the winemaking and aging since 2024, and Julien Viaud has been the consulting enologist since 2018. Guests can stay at the Villa Héloïse, among the vines.

At a glance

Appellation
Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion; Cuvée Allegria, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux
Commune
Puisseguin
Classification
No classification
Owners
Didier and Olivia Le Calvez, since 2009
Direction
Tiphanie Bondu, winemaking and aging, since 2024
Enologist
Julien Viaud, consultant, since 2018
Vineyard
24 hectares on a plateau 100 meters up, 4 of them woods and 4 fallow
Soil
Clay and limestone, in places clay and silica, over limestone with fossil starfish Terroir of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion →
Farming
Reasoned; soils worked mechanically; all picked by hand
Wines
Château Clarisse; Château Clarisse Vieilles Vignes; Cuvée Allegria; a Chardonnay, Vin de France

Sources

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The record

Château Clarisse is in the Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion appellation.

Private

By invitation only.

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