Château

Château Gazin Rocquencourt

shah-TOH gah-ZAN roh-kahn-KOOR

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A Léognan estate with vines on record since 1468 and a house built in 1660, in the hands of the Bonnie family, of Château Malartic-Lagravière, since the end of 2005.

Appellation: Pessac-Léognan
Châteaux: See it among the 629

The château

Gazin Rocquencourt goes back to the 15th century. The first vines on record date from 1468, when Guillem de Gazen owned the land, and the house from 1660. The name took its time to settle. Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, list Château Gazen et Barbon at Léognan under Mme P.-A. Letanneur in 1886, at 20 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels), and Château Gazin et Barbon, under the same owner and at the same figure, in 1893 and 1898. Édouard Féret’s Les vins des Graves rouges et blancs of 1908 has plain Château Gazin under J. Letanneur, at 30 tonneaux, and in 1922 the guide lists it under him for both red and white.

The Bonnie family, owners of Château Malartic-Lagravière, took the estate over at the end of 2005; it sits among their properties beside Malartic-Lagravière and Bodega DiamAndes, in Argentina, and Jean-Jacques Bonnie and his family live in the old house. The 22 hectares lie on a rise of dry gravel on the left bank of the Eau Blanche: 19.5 of red, 55% Cabernet Sauvignon and 45% Merlot, and 2.5 of white, all Sauvignon. The vineyard is worked by hand with little intervention and is certified for sustainable farming and Haute Valeur Environnementale (High Environmental Value, the French state’s environmental certification for farms). On average it gives 40,000 bottles of red and 5,000 of white.

At a glance

Appellation: Pessac-Léognan
Commune: Léognan
Classification: No classification
Owners: The Bonnie family, since the end of 2005
Vineyard: 22 hectares: 19.5 of red, 2.5 of white
Soil: Dry gravel, on the left bank of the Eau Blanche Terroir of Pessac-Léognan →
Grapes: Red: Cabernet Sauvignon 55%, Merlot 45%. White: Sauvignon 100%
Farming: Sustainable farming and Haute Valeur Environnementale; worked by hand
Production: 40,000 bottles of red and 5,000 of white on average
The house: Also Château Malartic-Lagravière, Pessac-Léognan, and Bodega DiamAndes, Mendoza
In history: Vines recorded in 1468, under Guillem de Gazen; the house built in 1660; Château Gazin et Barbon, 20 tonneaux, from 1886

Sources

Institutions: Syndicat viticole de Pessac-Léognan, Château Gazin-Rocquencourt
Its own publications: Famille Bonnie, the estates

Revised September 23, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château Gazin Rocquencourt is in the Pessac-Léognan appellation.

The classification of the Graves was approved in 1953 and completed in 1959. It has a single rank and 2 lists, red and white, and an estate may be classified for one and not the other.

Source: Syndicat Viticole de Pessac-Léognan, the Crus Classés de Graves

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