Château La Fleur-Pétrus

The château

La Fleur-Pétrus takes its name from where it stands, between the 2 places called Pétrus and La Fleur, and not from any parcel of either estate. The name was in print early: in 1886 Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, put Lafleur-Pétrus, under Pinau, in their column of first growths of Pomerol. Four lines above it in the same column stood Guillot, under Larquey. La Fleur-Pétrus was the first vineyard Jean-Pierre Moueix bought, in 1950, and it has grown since by buying from its neighbors: about 4 hectares of mature vines from Château Le Gay in 1994, and in 2012 the parcels of Château Guillot, which brought it to 18.7 hectares. The 2 names had sat side by side in print for 126 years before they became one property. Christian Moueix has been president of the house since 1991, and his son Edouard Moueix, general director and the third generation, joined in 2003 and runs the family’s Right Bank estates.

The whole vineyard lies on the plateau, between 33 and 38 meters, on gravel and deep clay over the iron-rich subsoil Pomerol calls crasse de fer, and it falls into 3 parts: gravel to the north, clay to the south, and warmer gravel between them. The planting is 91% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot, with vines 35 years old on average. The rows are plowed deep 4 to 6 times a year and the crop is thinned in summer; every vineyard of the house in Pomerol and Saint-Émilion carries AREA, the environmental standard of the Aquitaine region. Optical sorting came in with the 2009 vintage, and since 2013 the wine has been made at Château Hosanna, whose cellar takes the larger crop the Guillot parcels brought. It ferments in thermoregulated concrete and stainless steel and is raised 16 to 18 months in French oak, half the barrels new.

At a glance

Appellation

Pomerol

Commune

Pomerol, wholly on the plateau, between 33 and 38 meters

Classification

Michelin Guide, 1 grape (2026)

Owner

Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix, since 1950

Direction

Christian Moueix, president, since 1991; Edouard Moueix, general director, since 2003

Vineyard

18.7 hectares; about 4 from Château Le Gay in 1994; the Château Guillot parcels in 2012; vines 35 years old on average

Soil

Gravel to the north, clay to the south, warmer gravel between, over crasse de fer Terroir of Pomerol →

Grapes

Merlot 91%, Cabernet Franc 6%, Petit Verdot 3%

Farming

AREA, the environmental standard of the Aquitaine region

Cellar

Made at Château Hosanna since 2013; optical sorting since 2009; concrete and stainless steel; 16 to 18 months in French oak, half new

In history

A first growth of Pomerol in the column of Cocks and Féret, 1886, under Pinau, 4 lines below Guillot