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Château Larrivaux
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A Cissac estate that has passed by marriage from family to family since 1679, its vines set on 4 islands around the house, above old quarries where bats live.
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The château
The family counts 1580 as the start of Larrivaux’s story, and what follows is a chain of marriages. In the 17th century the noble house belonged to the Pomiers, lords of Le Breuil; in 1679 Jacques de Veissière de la Barre, a squire and officer of the king, acquired it, and from him it passed by marriage through the Chadirac, Marin de Saint-Palais, Le Gentil de Paroy, Magne, du Hamel and Desmoulins de Leybardie families to Huguette de Carheil, who carried it into the 20th century. Bérangère Tesseron, heir to that line, has run it since 2005; her husband Basile joined her in 2022, and they own it with their sons Timour, Vassili, Vadim and Till. Christophe Barbeyron is technical director.
The 19.6 hectares lie on 4 islands around the house, on soils mainly of clay, fine and sandy in places, gravelly in others, with limestone here and there, over old stone quarries where more than 9 species of bats live. The family has replanted more than 2 kilometers of hedges and 2 copses, and the estate holds Haute Valeur Environnementale (High Environmental Value, the French state’s environmental certification for farms) certification. The vineyard is 61% Merlot, 26% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot, at 6,500 vines a hectare, and the blend of the red moves with the vintage; the wine spends 12 months in barrel, less than 25% of it new. A white of Sauvignon Blanc and Sauvignon Gris is on the way.
At a glance
- Appellation
Haut-Médoc - Commune
- Cissac-
Médoc - Classification
- No classification
- Owners
- Bérangère and Basile Tesseron and their sons
- Direction
- Bérangère Tesseron, since 2005; Christophe Barbeyron, technical director
- Vineyard
- 19.6 hectares on 4 islands; 6,500 vines a hectare
- Soil
- Mainly clay, from fine and sandy to gravelly, with limestone in places Terroir of
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- Merlot 61%, Cabernet Sauvignon 26%, Cabernet Franc 8%, Petit Verdot 5%
- Farming
- Haute Valeur Environnementale
- Cellar
- 12 months in barrel, less than 25% new
- Wines
Château Larrivaux ; Le Borderon; L’X de Larrivaux
Sources
- Institutions
- Conseil des Vins du
Médoc ,Château Larrivaux ; Alliance des Crus Bourgeois duMédoc : the classification of 2025, the classification of 2020 - Its own publications
Château Larrivaux : the estate, a history of women, a living terroir, our space of freedom, the wines, the team
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The record
The 1855 Classification was published on April 18, 1855, drawn up by the brokers of the Bordeaux exchange for the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
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