Château

Château Haut-Madrac

shah-TOH oh mah-DRAHK
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Capitals mark the stressed syllable. The French r comes from the back of the throat. The recording is the reference.

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 château

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 one 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
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

Institutions
Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc: Château Haut-Madrac, the classification of 2025, the classification of 2020

Revised October 13, 2026. How I choose sources

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.

Source: Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855

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By invitation only.

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