Château La Tour de Mons

The château

La Tour de Mons begins with a seigneury. In 1098 William IX the Troubadour, Duke of Aquitaine, created the seigneury of Soussans; the lords of Blanquefort built its fortified manor in the 13th century, and the ruins of a castle, a chapel and an oratory still stand on the estate. In 1623 Pierre de Mons married Anne de Bordes, only daughter of the baron of Soussans, acquired the property and gave it his name. In 1740 it went as a dowry to J.-B. de Secondat de Montesquieu, and it came back to the marquis de Mons-des-Dunes in 1805.

By the middle of the 19th century it was a substantial growth. William Franck, whose Traité sur les vins du Médoc first appeared in 1824, lists the Latour-de-Mons in 1845 under the heirs of the marquise de Mons, at 80 to 100 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels), and Armand d’Armailhacq, a Pauillac grower, places it among the bourgeois supérieurs in his La culture des vignes of 1855, then owned by M. de Lajeard, with 45 hectares making 80 tonneaux. In 1886, under the baron H. de Vassal, Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, describe an estate of 200 hectares with 30 of vines, and a herd of Bordeaux dairy cows that had won the Godard prize in 1884. Pierre-J. Dubos owned it in 1922.

Crédit Agricole Grands Crus sold La Tour de Mons in 2020 to the Perrodo family, owners of the neighboring Château Labégorce and Château Marquis d’Alesme Becker, whose Domaines P. have held Haute Valeur Environnementale (High Environmental Value, the French state’s environmental certification for farms) on all their estates from 2020. Marjolaine Maurice de Coninck is managing director and enologist. The 58 hectares lie in a single block in the north of the Margaux appellation, ringed by woods, on Garonne gravel and on clay and limestone; they are mostly Merlot, with Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, planted at 8,500 vines a hectare and pruned double Guyot. The grapes are picked by hand, sorted in the cellar and fermented slowly at low temperature in steel vats, by origin, and the wine ages 12 months in French oak barrels. La Tour de Mons was a Cru Bourgeois Supérieur in the classification of 2020 and is not in that of 2025. Marquis de Mons is the second wine, and since 2001 Château Marsac Séguineau, also a Margaux, has been run jointly with La Tour de Mons.

At a glance

Appellation

Margaux

Commune

Soussans

Classification

Cru Bourgeois Supérieur in 2020; not in the list of 2025

Owners

The Perrodo family, Domaines P., since 2020

Direction

Marjolaine Maurice de Coninck, managing director and enologist

Vineyard

58 hectares in one block; 8,500 vines a hectare

Soil

Garonne gravel; clay and limestone Terroir of Margaux →

Grapes

Mostly Merlot, with Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc

Farming

Haute Valeur Environnementale, from 2020

Cellar

Picked by hand; steel vats; 12 months in French oak barrels

Wines

Château La Tour de Mons; Marquis de Mons

The house

Also Château Labégorce and Château Marquis d’Alesme Becker; Château Marsac Séguineau run jointly since 2001

In history

A bourgeois supérieur of 45 hectares in 1855