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Château Lagrange

shah-TOH lah-GRAHNZH
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A Pomerol of pure Merlot on the northern edge of the plateau that began as a piece of Trotanoy, cut away in a family division, and has belonged to Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix since 1953.

Appellation
Pomerol

The château

This Lagrange, not to be confused with the Saint-Julien estate of the same name, was born of Trotanoy. By 1898 Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, recorded that 2 crus had been taken out of Trotanoy in family divisions, and one of them was the cru Lagrange-Tropchaud of G. de Jaurias, at 12 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels); their English edition of 1899 placed it among the first growths of Pomerol. In Féret’s Saint-Émilion et ses vins of 1908 the Cru Lagrange of de Jaurias is a 1er cru classé of Pomerol at 15 tonneaux, and in 1922 it is still his. Later the 2 were back under a single owner, M. Pécresse, who held both Lagrange and Trotanoy, and in 1953 Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix bought Lagrange from him. The house owns and runs it still.

The 9 hectares lie on the northern border of the plateau and are planted wholly to Merlot, on heavy soil: gravel on clay, and an old, deep blue clay. Once the grapes are ripe the harvest, by hand, takes a few hours. The fruit is sorted by hand and then optically and fermented with a gentle extraction in temperature-controlled concrete and stainless steel vats, and the wine ages 16 to 18 months in French oak barrels, 40% of them new. The house makes it in the lighter style of Pomerol, approachable young.

At a glance

Appellation
Pomerol
Commune
Pomerol, the northern border of the plateau
Classification
No classification
Owner
Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix, since 1953
Vineyard
9 hectares
Soil
Gravel on clay; old, deep blue clay Terroir of Pomerol →
Grapes
Merlot 100%
Cellar
Picked by hand; hand and optical sorting; concrete and stainless steel vats; 16 to 18 months in French oak barrels, 40% new
Wines
Château Lagrange
Not to be confused with
Château Lagrange, Saint-Julien
In history
Taken out of Trotanoy in a family division by 1898; a 1er cru classé of de Jaurias, 15 tonneaux, in 1908; bought in 1953 from M. Pécresse, owner of Trotanoy

Sources

Institutions
Syndicat viticole de Pomerol, Château Lagrange
Its own publications
Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix: Château Lagrange, Château Lagrange technical sheet, the vineyards

Revised October 18, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château Lagrange is in the Pomerol appellation.

Pomerol has never been classified. There is no Pomerol cru classé, and no rank on a Pomerol label means anything official.

Source: INAO, Pomerol

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By invitation only.

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