Antoine Moueix - Jules Lebègue

The house

The Lebègue side of the house began in 1828 as the trading house of the Jadouin family at Cantenac, in the Margaux country. Jean-Louis-Paul Lebègue went to London in 1861 and founded the Wine Shipping Company there. His brother Jules came back to Bordeaux in 1870, married into the Jadouin family and settled at Château Montbrun, and by the end of the century the house carried his name. Jules Jadouin had put Château d’Angludet back together by 1893. In 1901 Édouard Féret, who carried on the directory of the Bordeaux trade that Charles Cocks had begun, listed J. Lebègue as its owner, at 200 tonneaux (the old Bordeaux measure of a crop, 900 liters, or 4 barrels), with Château Montbrun and the Cru de la Gravette at Cantenac. All 3 were still in the name of J. Lebègue in 1922.

The firm, J. L. P. Lebègue et Cie, bought among the classed growths. G.A.K., the anonymous London author whose Clarets and Sauternes of 1920 followed the sales of each classed growth vintage by vintage, gives it the whole crop of Château Ferrière in 1902 and 1903. In 1906 Lebègue et Cie and L. Rosenheim et Fils took the Lafite crop and brought château bottling back to the estate, and part of the wine went to Lebègue for 5 years. The firm also bought the Léoville Barton of 1908, and it was among the main buyers of Saint-Pierre in the years before 1920.

On November 17, 1937 a Lebègue spoke for the export trade before the national committee that was setting up the appellations. Château Montbrun burned a second time in 1954 and was not rebuilt. The firm’s name also had an English form: in 1971 J. L. P. Lebègue & Co. Limited filed the name Lebegue as a trademark in the United States. The house moved to Saint-Émilion, where it works with the name of Antoine Moueix beside its own. In November 2006 Jeanjean, a listed wine group from the Hérault, bought the companies of Antoine Moueix Lebègue: 3 million bottles a year from 250 hectares farmed, 179 of them owned. Jeanjean became AdVini in 2010, and Jules Lebègue is its Bordeaux merchant house, with Jean-Pierre Durand, president of AdVini’s Bordeaux houses, as president and Antoine Leccia as managing director. Its estate arm, Antoine Moueix Propriétés, distributed Château Patache d’Aux from 2015 and bought it from the Lapalu family in December 2016.

At a glance

Kind

Négociant

Based in

Saint-Émilion

Founded

1828, at Cantenac, as the Jadouin house; Jules Lebègue by the end of the 19th century

Owner

AdVini group, since November 2006; named Jeanjean until 2010

Direction

Jean-Pierre Durand, president; Antoine Leccia, managing director

Château

Patache d’Aux, through Antoine Moueix Propriétés, since December 2016

Brands

Jules Lebègue; Antoine Moueix

Abroad

The Wine Shipping Company, London, from 1861

In the record

Angludet and Montbrun, 1901 and 1922; Ferrière, 1902 and 1903; Lafite from 1906, for 5 years; Léoville Barton, 1908