Borie-Manoux

The house

Eugène Borie founded a wine merchant’s business in 1870, and by 1886, as Eugène Borie Frères, the firm had set up at Pauillac. The Manoux name was with the Bories early. On February 21, 1900 E. Borie frères, with A. and F. Manoux, négociants (merchants who buy from the châteaux and sell on) at Pauillac, bought Château Caronne Sainte-Gemme, at Saint-Laurent. Édouard Féret, the Bordeaux publisher who carried on the directory of the trade begun by Charles Cocks, recorded the purchase in 1901. In 1924 the brothers Marcel and Francis Borie bought Château Batailley, a fifth growth of Pauillac.

Marcel Borie built out the family’s estates. He bought Château TrotteVieille, a first growth of Saint-Émilion, in 1947 and Château Beau-Site, at Saint-Estèphe, in 1955, and he also bought Château Haut-Bages Monpelou, at Pauillac. Émile Castéja, his son-in-law, succeeded him in 1961, and the Castéjas brought an estate of their own, Château Lynch-Moussas, in their family since 1919, which Émile Castéja replanted from 1970. On November 11, 1964 the family had filed its Beau-Rivage brand in Britain, as Beau-Rivage Monopole Borie-Manoux, in the names of Marie-Thérèse Borie, Denyse-Françoise Castéja and Émile Castéja. In 1973 he added Château du Domaine de l’Église, in Pomerol, and Château Pignon. In the last days of October 1976 Émile Castéja received a party of Dutch wine lovers at Batailley, with a glass of champagne on arrival and his older vintages at dinner. Beside the French flag, he had the Dutch one raised over the château.

Philippe Castéja took charge of all the properties and the merchant house in 2001. The house also distributes the wine of Château Haut-Madrac, another of the family’s Pauillac estates. With his sister Chantal Preben Hansen he has owned Château La Croix du Casse, in Pomerol, since 2005. The family widened its trade as well. Its holding, Borie Castéja Animation Participations, took over Grands Vins de Gironde in 2011, the company that trades today as A. de Luze & Fils, and in July 2014 completed the purchase of the négociant Mähler-Besse. Borie-Manoux moved to the quai de Bacalan, in Bordeaux, in 2017. In September 2022 the holding bought Château Peyrabon and Château La Fleur Peyrabon from Millésima.

At a glance

Kind

Négociant

Based in

Bordeaux, quai de Bacalan

Founded

1870, by Eugène Borie; at Pauillac by 1886

Owner

The Castéja family, through its holding Borie Castéja Animation Participations, president since July 17, 2018

Direction

Philippe Castéja, chief executive; Frédéric Castéja, executive director, since 2018

Châteaux

Batailley, 1924; TrotteVieille, 1947; Beau-Site, 1955; Haut-Bages Monpelou; Lynch-Moussas; Peyrabon and La Fleur Peyrabon, 2022

Brands

Beau-Rivage; Chapelle de la Trinité

In the record

Caronne Sainte-Gemme, bought by E. Borie frères and A. and F. Manoux on February 21, 1900