Château Lamothe-Bergeron

A Cru Bourgeois since its inception. Considered one of the leading Cru Bourgeois Supérieurs in the 19th century and still recognized as such today, Lamothe-Bergeron has always been a benchmark in the Haut-Médoc. The château owes part of its name and reputation to the prestige of the agronomist Jacques de Bergeron. As early as 1796, this former parliamentarian—who had returned to his vineyards following the Revolution—embarked on a series of experiments and published numerous treatises on viticulture, fertilizers, combating sand dunes, pest control, the use of acacia for making wine barrels, and the planting of exotic trees...

Jacques de Bergeron published a method for grafting vines that would give 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; in the Middle Ages, it had been 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 capitalize on the prestige of a renowned name. D’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 were rebalanced. The 1980s were marked by the complete renovation of the winemaking cellars and the restoration of the barrel cellar. In the 2000s, Crédit Agricole, in turn, maintained high standards. In 2009, the Cognac houses H. Mounier and Hardy acquired the property with grand ambitions. It was sold to CAPSSA in November 2019, which will continue the efforts undertaken over the past 10 years.