Château

Château Reynon

shah-TOH reh-NOHN
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Capitals mark the stressed syllable. “ohn” 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 Dubourdieu family’s estate at Béguey since 1976, where Denis Dubourdieu first tried skin maceration in the early 1980s, and where his widow and sons carry on his work.

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The château

Reynon was a noble house of Jean de La Roque at the end of the 15th century. The Carle de Trajet family held the vineyard in the 18th, the Laspeyrères built the mansion around 1850, and Émile Pollet, a Paris wine merchant, bought it shortly before 1900. Jacques David acquired it in 1958, and in 1976 his daughter Florence David and her husband Denis Dubourdieu took it over; the wine took the name Château Reynon in 1979. It was here, in the early 1980s, that Denis Dubourdieu began trying skin maceration. He died in July 2016, and Florence and their sons Fabrice and Jean-Jacques own the estate today.

Reynon lies at Béguey, near Cadillac, with part of the vineyard on slopes facing southeast in the neighboring commune of Laroque: deep clays typical of the côtes, gravelly hilltops and the old limestone terrace of the Œuille, a small tributary of the Garonne. Its 28 hectares are 43% Merlot, 34.5% Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot and 0.5% Sémillon, 23 years old on average; the vines planted at low density in the late 1950s are being replanted at 5,500 a hectare, in a restructuring begun in 1988. The red, a Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux, is fermented in stainless steel and concrete and aged 12 months in barrel; the second red is Clos de Reynon. The estate also makes a Sauvignon Blanc and a rosé, both Bordeaux, a sweet Cadillac in some years and, from 2018, Hommage Denis Dubourdieu, 100% Petit Verdot.

At a glance

Appellation
Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux, red; Bordeaux, white and rosé; Cadillac, sweet
Commune
Béguey
Classification
No classification
Owners
Florence, Fabrice and Jean-Jacques Dubourdieu; in the family since 1958
Vineyard
28 hectares, vines 23 years old on average; replanted at 5,500 vines a hectare since 1988
Soil
Deep clay, gravelly hilltops, an old limestone terrace Terroir of Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux →
Grapes
Merlot 43%, Sauvignon 34.5%, Cabernet Sauvignon 12%, Petit Verdot 10%, Sémillon 0.5%
Cellar
The red: stainless steel and concrete, 12 months in barrel
Wines
Château Reynon, red, white and rosé; Clos de Reynon; Château Reynon Cadillac; Hommage Denis Dubourdieu
The house
Denis Dubourdieu Domaines: also Doisy-Daëne, Clos Floridène, Doisy Dubroca, Haura and Cantegril

Sources

Companies
Denis Dubourdieu Domaines: Château Reynon (in French), Château Reynon, our history, technical sheet of Château Reynon

Revised September 23, 2026. How I choose sources

The record

Château Reynon is in the Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux appellation.

Private

By invitation only.

In the news

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  1. Jul 22, 2026

    Graves: the terroir behind Bordeaux’s great wines

    Graves, south of Bordeaux, has gravel, sand and clay soils that support the production of Bordeaux red and white wines. Château Reynon is a Graves red aged for 12 months in oak barrels.

    Source: G1 Graves The New BordeauxVineyard and Cellar

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