Château Lamothe-Bergeron

Bourgeois since time immemorial. Considered one of the leading Cru Bourgeois Supérieur wines in the 19th century and confirmed in this status today, Lamothe-Bergeron has always been a benchmark in the Haut-Médoc region. The château owes part of its name and reputation to the prestige of agronomist Jacques de Bergeron. From 1796 onwards, this former parliamentarian, who returned to his vineyards after the Revolution, devoted himself to experimentation and published numerous essays on vine cultivation, fertilizers, the fight against sand dunes and insects, the use of acacia for the manufacture of carassons, the planting of exotic trees, and more.

Jacques de Bergeron published a method of grafting vines that gave rise to the "Bergeron" method, still used by winegrowers in the Rhône Valley at the beginning of the 20th century.
He inherited Château Lamothe from his father, which in the Middle Ages was the seat of a seigneury known as Cussac. The property remained in the Bergeron family until the 1850s, but it was only after its acquisition by Monsieur d'Armana that the château took the name Lamothe-Bergeron, in order to benefit from the prestige of a renowned name. Armana's main achievement was the construction of a new château, completed in 1868.

The château passed into the hands of the Mestrezat company in the early 1970s. The vineyard was then restructured and the grape varieties rebalanced. The 1980s were marked by the complete renovation of the wine cellars and the refurbishment of the barrel cellar. In the 2000s, Crédit Agricole maintained high standards. In 2009, the Cognac houses H. Mounier and Hardy acquired the property with great ambitions. It was sold to CAPSSA in November 2019, which will continue all the efforts undertaken over the past 10 years.