A second wine called Lieutenant de Sigalas, also a Sauternes.The Château Sigalas-Rabaud Grand Vin, a Sauternes.
Wines Ĭhâteau Sigalas-Rabaud produces three wines: The average yield is 17 hectoliter per hectare. Sigalas-Rabaud has 14.25 hectares (35.2 acres) of vineyards, planted with 85% Sémillon, 14% Sauvignon blanc and 1% Muscadelle. With the 2009 vintage, she introduced the first dry white wine of the estate. In 2007, Laure de Lambert Compeyrot, daughter of Gerard de Lambert des Granges, took over the daily running of the estate as technical director. From January 1995 to September 2008, there was a collaboration arrangement with Suez Group, which in 1984 had bought the Cordier Group and therefore owned the neighbouring estate of Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey. In 1972 the winery was incorporated as a groupement foncier agricole (GFA), with the capital coming from the four Lambert des Granges children, which was changed to a société anonyme (SA) in 1989 and a société par actions simplifiée (SAS) in 2000. This resulted in income to cover the fixed costs, but meant that Sigalas-Rabaud was not part of the regular Bordeaux trade. Since the marketing situation was difficult at this stage, the approach chosen was to sell it exclusively through a succession of négociant houses, including Savour Club. On the Sigalas side, Marquis de Lambert des Granges, whose wife was of the Sigalas family, took control over Sigalas-Rabaud. The descendants of the Sigalas family descendants were unwilling to own all of Rabaud, and the holdings were sold to the Dejean family, which put an end to the joint running of Rabaud. In 1950, the Ginestet family wanted to get rid of their Rabaud holdings in order to buy Château Margaux. However, these were difficult time for the estate, due to a number of poor vintages in the 1930s and a poor wine market during the World War. During the 1930s and 1940s, the labels of the wine showed both names. In 1930, after the lease on the vineyards was not renewed, the Rabaud estate was run as one with Fernand Ginestet as tenant of both Sigalas-Rabaud and Rabaud-Promis. This still makes up the 14 hectares (35 acres) of vineyards of Sigalas-Rabaud. He did however keep the part which he considered to be the best, which he called le bijou de Sigalas ("the jewel of Sigalas"), and which consisted of a gravelly hill with southern exposure. In 1903, Henri's only son Pierre-Gaston de Sigalas sold the largest part of the property to Adrien Promis, creating Château Rabaud-Promis.
He also purchased Château Pexoto, a 10 hectares (25 acres) Sauternes property classified as a deuxième cru in 1855, and absorbed it into Rabaud-Sigalas. In 1863, Henri Drouilhet de Sigalas bought Rabaud and added his name to that of the property, creating Rabaud-Sigalas. The last de Cazeau owner, who was also mayor of Bommes, sold Rabaud in 1819 to Gabriel Deyme, who was the owner at the time of the 1855 classification. The history of the Rabaud estate goes back to 1660, when it came into the ownership of the de Cazeau family, who were magistrates of the parliament of Bordeaux.
0 kommentar(er)
