Château

Château des Laurets

shah-TOH day loh-REH

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A château of about 1860 whose octagonal tower rises over 86 hectares astride Puisseguin and Montagne, once the heart of an estate of 200 hectares and now owned by Edmond de Rothschild Heritage.

Appellation: Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion
On Instagram: @edmondderothschildheritage
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The château

Vines have grown here since the 12th century, but the Château des Laurets was new when Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, first listed it at Puisseguin in 1868, under Gailhard: just built, about 1860, with large outbuildings, to plans by Mialhe, an architect of Bordeaux, its octagonal central tower rising over the vineyard. With the lands of Château Malangin it made an estate of 200 hectares in one piece, about 100 of them vines, and the wine of Malangin was taken to Laurets and counted with its own: 225 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels) in 1874 and 300 from 1893. In 1922, under the comte de La Rochette, the guide put it in the first rank of the bourgeois supérieurs of the Saint-Émilion country.

Baron Benjamin de Rothschild bought and restored it, and it belongs to Edmond de Rothschild Heritage, where Ariane de Rothschild and her daughter Eve carry on the family’s history. The property covers 86 hectares astride the Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion and Montagne-Saint-Émilion appellations, its vines facing south on clay and limestone slopes with outcrops of limestone, certified Haute Valeur Environnementale (High Environmental Value, the French state’s environmental certification for farms) at level 3 since 2019. Château des Laurets, the Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion, comes from 40 hectares planted 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc; after a cold soak it is fermented in wooden and stainless steel vats and bottled at the château. A parcel selection of 4 hectares is made apart as Château des Laurets Baron. Fabrice Bandiera is technical director.

At a glance

Appellation: Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion; part of the property in Montagne-Saint-Émilion
Commune: Puisseguin
Classification: No classification
Owner: Edmond de Rothschild Heritage
Direction: Fabrice Bandiera, technical director
Vineyard: 86 hectares in all; 40 for the Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion
Soil: Clay and limestone slopes facing south, with limestone outcrops Terroir of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion →
Grapes: Merlot 80%, Cabernet Franc 20%
Farming: Haute Valeur Environnementale, level 3, since 2019
Cellar: Cold soak; wooden and stainless steel vats; bottled at the château
Wines: Château des Laurets; Château des Laurets Baron, a parcel selection of 4 hectares
In history: Built about 1860 to plans by Mialhe; 200 hectares with Malangin; 300 tonneaux from 1893

Sources

Its own publications: Edmond de Rothschild Heritage: Château des Laurets, Château des Laurets 2019, Château des Laurets Baron, the heritage, the wines of Château des Laurets

Revised October 13, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château des Laurets is in the Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion appellation.

Private

By invitation only.

In the old books

“[It has] about 100 hectares, cultivated with the greatest and most expert care, planted with the best grape varieties, such as the cabernets or bouchets, the merlot, the malbec or noir de Pressac”
100 hectares environ , cultivés avec les soins les plus grands et les mieux entendus , sont complantés des meilleurs cépages , tels que les Cabernets ou Bouchets , le Merlot , le Malbec ou Noir de Pressac

château des Laurets, Bordeaux et ses vins classés par ordre de mérite (2e éd.), 1868

The grapes of Bordeaux

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