Château
Château Haut-Bergeron
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Capitals mark the stressed syllable. “zh” is the s in “measure”. “ohn” is a nasal vowel: say it through the nose, with no n. The French r comes from the back of the throat. The recording is the reference.
A family
- Appellation
Sauternes - Châteaux
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The château
Haut-Bergeron stands at Preignac, about 40 kilometers southeast of Bordeaux and 10 from Langon, next to
At a glance
- Appellation
Sauternes Terroir ofSauternes →- Commune
- Preignac, next to
Château d’Yquem - Classification
- No classification
- Owners
- The Lamothe family, for 5 generations
- Direction
- Patrick Lamothe and his brother Hervé
- Vineyard
- 35 hectares in
Sauternes and 12 in theGraves - Wines
Sauternes ,Barsac ,Graves andGraves Supérieures
Sources
- Institutions
- ODG
Sauternes &Barsac ,Château Haut-Bergeron ; Gironde Tourisme:Château Haut-Bergeron ,Château Haut-Bergeron (French)
Revised September 23, 2026. How I choose sources
The record
Private
By invitation only.
In the news
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Haut-Bergeron waits for botrytis in
Sauternes At
Château Haut-Bergeron in Preignac, the Lamothe family waited for Botrytis cinerea, which appeared around October 10 after a dry September, before hand-picking and sorting the grapes in hopes of producing a fine vintage.Sauternes depends on timing that cannot be forced. The report shows how the region’s vintage narrative can remain unresolved even as harvesting advances elsewhere in Bordeaux.
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