Château

Château L’Arrosée

shah-TOH lah-roh-ZAY

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Capitals mark the stressed syllable. 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, bought in 2013 by its neighbor Château Quintus, the first of 2 purchases that enlarged it.

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

The château

L’Arrosée was a Grand Cru Classé in each Saint-Émilion classification from the first, in 1955, through 1969, 1986, 1996, 2006 and 2012. Its neighbor was Château Quintus, the Saint-Émilion estate of Domaine Clarence Dillon, the owners of Château Haut-Brion and Château La Mission Haut-Brion, and on October 1, 2013 the group completed the purchase through Quintus SAS, its wholly owned subsidiary. Prince Robert of Luxembourg, president of Quintus SAS, presented it as a merger of equals between the 2 estates.

The Quintus team took charge of the crop and the vintage of 2013, and with the vines of L’Arrosée, Château Quintus came to 28 hectares. It was the first of 2 purchases: Grand-Pontet followed in 2021, and the 3 properties now form a single estate of 45 hectares. L’Arrosée 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 →
Classification: Grand Cru Classé, 1955 to 2012; not in the list of 2022
Last owners: Domaine Clarence Dillon, through Quintus SAS, from October 1, 2013
Vineyard: Joined to Château Quintus, which it took to 28 hectares in 2013
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 acquires Château L’Arrosée, release of October 1, 2013; Domaine Clarence Dillon: history, the group

Revised September 23, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château L’Arrosée 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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