Château

Château Corconnac

shah-TOH kor-koh-NAHK

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8.5 hectares on a clay and limestone plateau at Saint-Laurent-Médoc, bought in 1990 with Château Teynac of Saint-Julien by a Paris couple who left communications for the Médoc.

Appellation: Haut-Médoc
Classification: Cru Bourgeois
On Instagram: @chateau_corconnac
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The château

Philippe Pairault trained as an architect and ran a communications agency; Fabienne Pairault, a journalist and lawyer by training, worked in communications for the car industry. In 1990 they left Paris for the Médoc and bought Château Teynac, at Saint-Julien, and Château Corconnac, at Saint-Laurent-Médoc, and in 1995 they added Château Les Ormes, another Saint-Julien. Their daughter Éléonore has since joined them. Corconnac was a village of Saint-Laurent before it was a château: Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, knew only its growers until 1922, when they first listed Château Corconnac, under Robin, among the crus bourgeois supérieurs et crus bourgeois (a Médoc classification).

The vineyard is 8.5 hectares on the clay and limestone plateau, 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot, with vines 40 years old on average, and the red spends 12 months in French oak; it comes to about 35,000 bottles. On their arrival in the early 1990s the Pairaults also planted white grapes, and a white of 100% Sauvignon Blanc now makes a little under 1,000 bottles a year. The estates hold Haute Valeur Environnementale (High Environmental Value, the French state’s environmental certification for farms) from the 2016 vintage and ISO 14001, and since 2015 have belonged to a collective environmental management group. Corconnac was a Cru Bourgeois in the classifications of 2020 and 2025.

At a glance

Appellation: Haut-Médoc
Commune: Saint-Laurent-Médoc
Classification: Cru Bourgeois, 2020 and 2025
Owners: Philippe and Fabienne Pairault, since 1990
Vineyard: 8.5 hectares; vines 40 years old on average
Soil: A clay and limestone plateau Terroir of Haut-Médoc →
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon 60%, Merlot 40%
Farming: Haute Valeur Environnementale, from the 2016 vintage; ISO 14001
Cellar: 12 months in French oak barrels
Production: About 35,000 bottles; the white, a little under 1,000
Wines: Château Corconnac, red; Château Corconnac, white, 100% Sauvignon Blanc
The house: Also Château Teynac and Château Les Ormes, Saint-Julien

Sources

Institutions: Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc: Château Corconnac, the classification of 2025, the classification of 2020
Its own publications: Châteaux Teynac Corconnac: the estates, the Pairault family, the wines, the environment, contact

Revised October 23, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château Corconnac is a Cru Bourgeois, in the Haut-Médoc appellation.

The 1855 Classification was published on April 18, 1855, drawn up by the brokers of the Bordeaux exchange for the Exposition Universelle in Paris.

Source: Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855

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