Château
Château Haut-Madrac
20 hectares on a gravel slope at Saint-Sauveur, on the edge of Pauillac, a Castéja estate whose wine is made in the cellars of Château Lynch-Moussas, with a Castéja already in the books of 1922.
- Appellation
- Haut-Médoc
- Classification
- Cru Bourgeois
The estate
Madrac was a name in the Médoc long before Haut-Madrac. William Franck, whose Traité sur les vins du Médoc first appeared in 1824, lists it at Saint-Sauveur under the chevalier de Lynch in 1845, at 60 to 70 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels), and in 1855 Armand d’Armailhacq, a Pauillac grower whose La culture des vignes, la vinification et les vins dans le Médoc came out that year, gives Madrac, then of M. Vasquez, 22 hectares making 60 tonneaux among the bourgeois ordinaires. Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, keep it under Vasquez from 1868 to 1899, among the crus bourgeois supérieurs in 1883 and 1886, and in 1922 they list it under Jean Castéja.
Today it is 1 of the Castéja family estates, whose wines the Bordeaux house Borie-Manoux distributes. The vineyard covers 20 hectares on a gravelly slope, in parcels next to Pauillac, planted 56% Cabernet Sauvignon and 44% Merlot. The grapes are picked by hand and the wine is made in the cellars of the neighboring Château Lynch-Moussas, owned by the Castéja family for 100 years, whose technical team looks after Haut-Madrac as well. It was a Cru Bourgeois in the classifications of 2020 and 2025.
At a glance
- Appellation
- Haut-Médoc
- Commune
- Saint-Sauveur
- Classification
- Cru Bourgeois, 2020 and 2025
- Owners
- The Castéja family
- Direction
- The technical team of Château Lynch-Moussas
- Vineyard
- 20 hectares on a gravelly slope, next to Pauillac
- Ground
- Gravel
- Grapes
- Cabernet Sauvignon 56%, Merlot 44%
- Cellar
- Picked by hand; made at Château Lynch-Moussas
- Wines
- Château Haut-Madrac
- The house
- Also Château Lynch-Moussas, Pauillac; distributed by Borie-Manoux
- In history
- Madrac, 22 hectares and 60 tonneaux, in 1855
Sources: Borie-Manoux, Château Haut-Madrac · Borie-Manoux, the wines: family exclusives · Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc, Château Haut-Madrac · Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc, the classification of 2025 · Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc, the classification of 2020
The record
Château Haut-Madrac 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.
Cru Classé
By invitation only.
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