Château Seguin

The château

Seguin was once a stop for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Charles Cocks and Édouard Féret, whose Bordeaux et ses vins was the reference book of the Bordeaux trade, list Château-Seguin at Canéjan from 1874, under P. Pascal, at 35 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels), with a notice of gravel rises planted to the best vines, giving very fine red wines much like the famous Haut-Brion. By 1898 it stood, in their pages, on the highest point of Canéjan, an estate of 61 hectares with 16 of vines, and it and the Château de Rouillac usually fetched a premium over the local prices. The Pascal family still owned it in the early 20th century.

Seguin fell into obscurity in the 1950s. The revival came in the 1980s, with André Lurton and Jean Darriet; the Darriet family has owned the estate since 1987, and 3 wine lovers of the LOTICIS group brought in further investment from 1999. Denis Darriet and the investor Moïse Ohana are the owners today, and Stéphane Derenoncourt consults.

The vineyard has 2 parts, Seguin and Petit Bordeaux, each of slightly more than 15 hectares, on gravel more than 7 meters deep, planted 50% Merlot and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon. It gives about 140,000 bottles a year, in 3 reds: Château Seguin, Nuance(S) de Château Seguin and L’Angelot de Seguin.

At a glance

Appellation

Pessac-Léognan

Commune

Canéjan

Classification

No classification

Owners

The Darriet family, since 1987; Denis Darriet and Moïse Ohana, with outside investors since 1999

Consultant

Stéphane Derenoncourt

Vineyard

Seguin and Petit Bordeaux, each of slightly more than 15 hectares

Soil

Gravel more than 7 meters deep Terroir of Pessac-Léognan →

Grapes

Merlot 50%, Cabernet Sauvignon 50%

Production

About 140,000 bottles a year

Wines

Château Seguin; Nuance(S) de Château Seguin; L’Angelot de Seguin

In history

Château-Seguin at Canéjan from 1874, its wines likened to Haut-Brion; 61 hectares, 16 of vines, in 1898

Not to be confused with

Château Dauphiné-Rondillon’s Darriet family, Loupiac