Château

Château Magnol

shah-TOH mah-NYOL
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An 18th-century house at Blanquefort that the merchant Barton & Guestier bought in 1969 and made the home of its wine school in 1989; a Cru Bourgeois Supérieur since the classification of 2025.

Appellation
Haut-Médoc
Classification
Cru Bourgeois Supérieur
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The château

Magnol was built at the start of the 18th century, and in 1776 it was bought by Charles Jean-Baptiste Mercier Dupaty, president of the Parliament of Bordeaux. Its modern life belongs to Barton & Guestier, the Bordeaux merchant house founded in 1725, which bought the château in 1969 and its vineyards 10 years later, in 1979. Richard Nixon visited in 1981, and in 1989 the house opened its wine school here, the Food & Wine Academy, with 12 guest rooms in the château.

The vineyard is 31 hectares of sand and gravel at Blanquefort. The 2020 is 49% Merlot, 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot, fermented warm with a long maceration of 3 weeks and aged 12 months in barrel, 30% new. A Cru Bourgeois in 2020, Magnol was raised to Cru Bourgeois Supérieur in the classification of 2025.

At a glance

Appellation
Haut-Médoc
Commune
Blanquefort
Classification
Cru Bourgeois in 2020; Cru Bourgeois Supérieur in 2025
Owner
Barton & Guestier: the château since 1969, the vineyards since 1979
Vineyard
31 hectares
Soil
Sand and gravel Terroir of Haut-Médoc →
Grapes
The 2020: Merlot 49%, Cabernet Sauvignon 43%, Cabernet Franc 5%, Petit Verdot 3%
Cellar
The 2020: 3 weeks of maceration; 12 months in barrel, 30% new
The house
Home of the Food & Wine Academy of Barton & Guestier since 1989, with 12 guest rooms

Sources

Institutions
Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc: Château Magnol, the classification of 2025, the classification of 2020

Revised September 23, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château Magnol is a Cru Bourgeois Supérieur, in the Haut-Médoc appellation.

The 1855 Classification was published on April 18, 1855, drawn up by the brokers of the Bordeaux exchange for the Exposition Universelle in Paris.

Source: Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855

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