Château

Château Moulin Saint-Georges

shah-TOH moo-LAN san ZHORZH
How to read this

Capitals mark the stressed syllable. “zh” is the s in “measure”. “an” is a nasal vowel: say it through the nose, with no n. The French r comes from the back of the throat. The recording is the reference.

The neighbor of Ausone, facing it at the southern entrance to Saint-Émilion, in the Vauthier family since 1921 and raised entirely in new barrels.

The château

Moulin-Saint-Georges lies at the southern end of Saint-Émilion, a short walk from the entrance to the village, and looks straight across at Château Ausone, which has the same owners. The name comes from a mill of the fief of Saint-Georges that stood where the cellar stands now. The Vauthier family has held the estate since 1921, and the present generation is the 5th; it is one of the family’s 6 estates, with Ausone, La Clotte, Haut-Simard, Simard and Fonbel.

The tie to Ausone is older than the Vauthiers. Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, placed the crus of Palat and Moulin-Saint-Georges, under L.-P. Ouy, among the first growths of Saint-Émilion from 1893; they made 15 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels) in 1897. By 1908, in Féret’s Saint-Émilion et ses vins, the 2 had been joined as Château Palat-Saint-Georges, of Charles Ouy-Vernazobres, at 20 tonneaux, with Pavie on one side and, on the other, only a road between its vines and Ausone, “le titan des crus bordelais”. In 1922 Moulin Saint-Georges stood again as a first growth of its own, and its owner was Ed. Dubois-Challon, the owner of Ausone.

The vineyard is 8 hectares of clay and limestone, mostly Merlot with a few plots of Cabernet Franc, planted at 5,500 to 12,600 vines a hectare. The grapes are picked by hand and sorted plot by plot, fermented in stainless steel and raised entirely in new barrels; the blend comes out at about 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc.

At a glance

Appellation
Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
Commune
Saint-Émilion, facing Château Ausone
Classification
No classification
Owners
The Vauthier family, since 1921
Vineyard
8 hectares; 5,500 to 12,600 vines a hectare
Soil
Clay and limestone Terroir of Saint-Émilion →
Grapes
Merlot about 85%, Cabernet Franc about 15%
Cellar
Picked by hand; sorted plot by plot; stainless steel vats; new barrels, 100%
The house
Vignobles Vauthier: also Château Ausone, Château La Clotte, Château Haut-Simard, Château Simard and Château de Fonbel
In history
The crus of Palat and Moulin-Saint-Georges among the first growths of Saint-Émilion from 1893

Sources

Revised October 13, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château Moulin Saint-Georges is in the Saint-Émilion Grand Cru appellation.

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.

On from here

Test yourself on Saint-Émilion · Found an error? Corrections