Château Carbonnieux

Chemin de Peyssardet

33850 Léognan

Tél. +33(0)5 57 96 56 20

info@chateau-carbonnieux.fr

www.carbonnieux.com

Château Carbonnieux, Classified Growth of Graves.

Discover Château Carbonnieux, a Classified Growth of Graves located in the Pessac-Léognan appellation.

Already known in the 13th century, Carbonnieux has been one of the oldest winegrowing estates in the Bordeaux region since 1234. Its first owners, the Benedictine monks of Bordeaux's Sainte Croix abbey, were already ensuring a certain aura for the estate and the wines it produced in the Middle Ages (the period from which the château in its current appearance dates), to the point of making its dry white wine, considered a “Carbonnieux mineral water”, known to the Sultan of Constantinople. This reputation even interested the famous Thomas Jefferson, future third President of the United States, when he came to Bordeaux in 1787. He stopped off at the estate and offered an American pecan tree to be planted in the château grounds. The 92-hectare estate, classified as a Cru Classé de Graves for its red and white wines, is ideally located at the highest point of the Léognan commune, in the heart of the Pessac-Léognan appellation. During the 20th century, from 1956 onwards, the château became the property of the Perrin family. First Marc Perrin, then his son Anthony Perrin, a leading figure in Bordeaux winegrowing, in the early 80s before his death in September 2008. Since then, his children Philibert, Eric and Christine have run the estate, joined in 2019 by their children. Four generations of the Perrin family look after this jewel of the Graves, producing superb red and dry white wines.