Château Montviel

The château

Catherine Péré-Vergé took over Montviel in 1985 and renovated it: a new vat room and barrel cellar, the house restored, the vineyard reworked. In 2002 she brought the vines of the châteaux Tristan, Feytit Lagrave and La Croix des Templiers together with those of Bellevue-Montviel, so that the estate now works 20 plots spread across the appellation. In 2019, at the request of her daughter, Anne Catherine Parent, the Vignobles Parent teams replaced the steel vats with temperature-controlled concrete and installed a cold exchanger 40 meters long, to chill the grapes for a soak before fermentation. The family also owns Château Le Gay and Château La Violette in Pomerol.

The estate has 10.5 hectares, 9.62 of them in production, on fine gravel and sandy silt, planted 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, 30 years old on average. The grapes are picked by hand in 2 passes in early September and soaked cold for 12 days in concrete, and the wine ages 18 months in barrel, 70% new. The yields are low, 17.5 hectoliters a hectare, and the selection is strict: the grand vin (the estate’s first wine) makes 16,000 bottles, while the second wine, La Rose Montviel, takes 50% to 60% of the crop.

At a glance

Appellation

Pomerol

Commune

Pomerol, 20 plots across the appellation

Classification

No classification

Owners

Vignobles Parent, the family of Catherine Péré-Vergé, who took it over in 1985

Vineyard

10.5 hectares, 9.62 in production, in 20 plots; vines 30 years old on average

Soil

Fine gravel and sandy silt Terroir of Pomerol →

Grapes

Merlot 80%, Cabernet Franc 20%

Cellar

Picked by hand in 2 passes; 12 days of cold soak in concrete since 2019; 18 months in barrel, 70% new

Production

16,000 bottles at 17.5 hectoliters a hectare

Wines

Château Montviel; La Rose Montviel

The house

Also Château Le Gay and Château La Violette, Pomerol