Château

Château La Tour du Pin

shah-TOH lah toor dew PAN

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A Grand Cru Classé that Cheval Blanc bought in 2006 and dissolved into its own vineyard, and the land on which Cheval Blanc learned to make a white wine.

Appellation: Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
Classification: Grand Cru Classé (2006; taken into Château Cheval Blanc)
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The château

La Tour du Pin came out of the breaking up of Figeac. In 1881 half of the land that had just become Château La Tour Figeac was split off as Château La Tour du Pin Figeac, a name later carried by 2 separate estates, one of the Moueix family and one of the Giraud, later Giraud-Bélivier, family. This was the Moueix estate. It was a Grand Cru Classé in every list from 1955 to 2006: as La Tour du Pin Figeac (Moueix) in 1955, 1969, 1986 and 1996, and as Château La Tour du Pin in 2006.

Château Cheval Blanc bought it in 2006: about 8 hectares of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, whose vines were taken into the Cheval Blanc estate and entirely restructured. In 2012 part of its vineyard was added to Cheval Blanc’s own, and it is absent from the lists of 2012 and 2022. What it left behind is a white wine. From 2008 Cheval Blanc grafted Sauvignon Blanc here to learn whether the soil could grow grapes for white, then found Sémillon in an existing vineyard, and in September 2016 it presented Le Petit Cheval Blanc 2014. A nature sanctuary was set up on the site soon after the purchase.

At a glance

Appellation: Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Terroir of Saint-Émilion →
Classification: Grand Cru Classé, 1955 to 2006; not in the lists of 2012 and 2022
Last owners: Château Cheval Blanc, from 2006
Vineyard: About 8 hectares of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, taken into Cheval Blanc and restructured
Wines: Château La Tour du Pin
The white: Le Petit Cheval Blanc began here; the 2014 was presented in 2016
Now part of: Château Cheval Blanc

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: Château Cheval Blanc: Le Petit Cheval Blanc, history

Revised October 18, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château La Tour du Pin was a Grand Cru Classé of Saint-Émilion until the classification of 2006; its vines are now part of Château Cheval Blanc.

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

Private

By invitation only.

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