Château de Reignac

The château

The seigneur Baude de Peyron built the present château in the 16th century, and when the trade books began to list the wines of Saint-Loubès, Reignac came first. Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, put Château Reignac first among the côtes and plateaus of Saint-Loubès from 1868, under Chaline, at 150 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels). The widow Th. Labat held it by 1898, and in 1922 Mme M. Carlsberg-Labat, with 120 tonneaux of red and 30 of white. That year the guide described an estate of 102 hectares, 33 of them vines on rises of clayey gravel, all in fine varieties with Cabernet Sauvignon foremost, and ranked its very fragrant reds among the best of the district; the white vineyard, then being rebuilt, gave a sweet white much sought by the trade.

Yves and Stéphanie Vatelot bought Reignac in 1990. It stands in the west of the Entre-deux-Mers, on land between 22 and 43 meters above sea level, in 3 zones: deep gravels of the Mindel glaciation on the summit, clay of the Fronsac molasses on a hillside facing southeast, and marl and limestone of Castillon to the south. The estate holds a greenhouse signed by Gustave Eiffel, a lake dug in 1993 and a 16th-century dovecote restored in 1998 as a tower for blind tastings.

The Grand Vin de Reignac is 67% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Cabernet Franc, from a vineyard of 49 hectares, certified Haute Valeur Environnementale (High Environmental Value, the French state’s environmental certification for farms) since 2017; Michel Rolland, who died in March 2026, was its consulting enologist. BALTHVS, 100% Merlot, is fermented and aged in new French oak barrels, and 500 cases were made in 2006. Château de Reignac is the second wine; R de Reignac, mostly Cabernet Franc, spends 9 months in vat with no barrel; and there are a white and a rosé.

At a glance

Appellation

Bordeaux Supérieur

Commune

Saint-Loubès

Classification

No classification

Owners

Yves and Stéphanie Vatelot, since 1990

Consultant

Michel Rolland, who died in March 2026

Vineyard

49 hectares

Soil

Mindel gravels, Fronsac molasses, Castillon marl and limestone Terroir of Bordeaux Supérieur →

Grapes

Grand Vin: Merlot 67%, Cabernet Sauvignon 25%, Cabernet Franc 8%

Farming

Haute Valeur Environnementale, since 2017

Wines

Grand Vin de Reignac; BALTHVS; Château de Reignac; R de Reignac; Blanc de Reignac; Reignac Rosé

The park

A greenhouse signed by Gustave Eiffel; a lake dug in 1993; a 16th-century dovecote for blind tastings

In history

First of the côtes of Saint-Loubès from 1868, 150 tonneaux; 102 hectares, 33 of vines, in 1922