Château

Château Grand-Pontet

shah-TOH grahn pohn-TEH

How to read this

Capitals mark the stressed syllable. “ahn” and “ohn” are nasal vowels: say them through the nose, with no n. The French r comes from the back of the throat. The recording is the reference.

A Grand Cru Classé in every Saint-Émilion list from 1955 to 2012, a few steps from the village, which Château Quintus bought in 2021 and folded into its own vineyard.

Appellation: Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
Classification: Grand Cru Classé (2012; taken into Château Quintus)
Châteaux: See it among the 629

The château

Grand-Pontet stood a few meters from the village of Saint-Émilion, and for more than 50 years its rank never changed: it was a Grand Cru Classé in the classifications of 1955, 1969, 1986, 1996, 2006 and 2012. Its end as a wine of its own came on September 27, 2021, when Domaine Clarence Dillon announced that Château Quintus, its Saint-Émilion estate, was buying it. The vines lay 1 kilometer north of Quintus’s existing parcels, and Prince Robert of Luxembourg, chairman and chief executive of the group, wanted a larger and more diverse palette for the enologists.

Grand-Pontet was the 3rd property to make up Quintus: the estate had taken in its neighbor L’Arrosée in 2013, and with Grand-Pontet it came to 45 hectares, 42 of them planted. Grand-Pontet was not in the classification of September 2022; its vines now go into Château Quintus.

At a glance

Appellation: Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Terroir of Saint-Émilion →
Commune: Saint-Émilion, a few meters from the village
Classification: Grand Cru Classé, 1955 to 2012; not in the list of 2022
Last owners: Domaine Clarence Dillon, through Château Quintus, from 2021
Vineyard: 1 kilometer north of the older parcels of Quintus, which it took to 45 hectares, 42 planted
Now part of: Château Quintus

Sources

Institutions: Conseil des Vins de Saint-Émilion, press kit of the classification of 2012, with the lists of 1955 to 2012; INAO, Saint-Émilion grand cru: the classification for the next decade, 2022
Its own publications: Domaine Clarence Dillon, Château Quintus grows with the acquisition of Château Grand-Pontet, release of September 27, 2021; Domaine Clarence Dillon: history, the group

Revised October 10, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château Grand-Pontet was a Grand Cru Classé of Saint-Émilion in the classification of 2012; it is now part of Château Quintus.

Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is an appellation, not a rank. A wine may carry it and hold no place at all in the Saint-Émilion classification.

Source: INAO, Saint-Émilion grand cru

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