Château

Château de Cartujac

shah-TOH duh kar-tew-ZHAHK
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The cradle of the Saintout family at Saint-Laurent-Médoc, where the family was already settled in 1640 and where Bruno Saintout has enlarged the vineyard since 1984.

Appellation
Haut-Médoc
Classification
Cru Bourgeois

The château

The Saintouts come from Cartujac, at Saint-Laurent-Médoc. The oldest notarial act the family holds places them there in 1640, and they have kept this land for at least 12 generations; at the end of the 18th century they were raising sheep here, at the edge of the Grande Lande. Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, list Eug. Saintout at the village of Cartujac among the crus artisans et crus paysans in 1898, at 10 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels), and H. Saintout in 1922. In 1925 the marriage of Pierre “Roger” Saintout and Madeleine Blancan joined Château La Bridane, in Saint-Julien, to Château de Cartujac.

Bruno Saintout has enlarged the estate step by step since 1984. A member of the Vignerons Indépendants, he also makes Château La Bridane and Château du Périer, a Médoc, and Pierre Saintout, an agronomist and enologist, joined the family business in 2022. Cartujac has 10 hectares of Garonne gravel and of clay and limestone, at 6,500 vines a hectare, with vines 40 years old, planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot and certified Haute Valeur Environnementale (High Environmental Value, the French state’s environmental certification for farms). The crop is picked by machine, made in stainless steel and cement vats and aged in vats and barrels, with Antoine Médeville as consulting enologist; the 2020 is 47% Merlot, 27% Cabernet Sauvignon and 26% Petit Verdot, an unusually large share of Petit Verdot. The estate makes 25,000 bottles, the second wine is Moulin de La Bridane, and Cartujac 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
The Saintout family; Bruno Saintout, since 1984
Enologist
Antoine Médeville
Vineyard
10 hectares; 6,500 vines a hectare; vines 40 years old
Soil
Garonne gravel; clay and limestone Terroir of Haut-Médoc →
Grapes
The 2020: Merlot 47%, Cabernet Sauvignon 27%, Petit Verdot 26%
Farming
Haute Valeur Environnementale
Cellar
Picked by machine; stainless steel and cement vats; aged in vats and barrels
Production
25,000 bottles
Wines
Château de Cartujac; Moulin de La Bridane
The house
Also Château La Bridane, Saint-Julien, and Château du Périer, Médoc
In history
The family at Cartujac by 1640; Eug. Saintout at Cartujac in 1898; La Bridane and Cartujac joined by marriage in 1925

Sources

Institutions
Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc: Domaine de Cartujac, the classification of 2025, the classification of 2020
Its own publications
Vignobles Saintout: the estate, our wines

Revised October 10, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château de Cartujac 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

Private

By invitation only.

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