Château Bouscaut

Château Bouscaut was purchased by the Chabanneaux family at the end of the 19th century. The name Bouscaut (after the locality) appeared under their aegis around 1881, replacing the name Haut Truchon. In 1925, Victor Place and the Count of Rivaud became the owners and undertook to restore the estate to its former glory. In 1961, a fire completely destroyed the château. They sold the property in 1968 to a group of investors from New York who entrusted the management of the vineyard to the Haut-Brion estate managers. Finally, Bouscaut was acquired in 1979 by Lucien Lurton. Today, the fourth generation is at the helm with Sophie Lurton, Lucien's daughter, to whom he gave the property in 1992. Since then, Sophie and her husband Laurent Cogombles have been committed to bringing out the best in this unique terroir.

The terroir of Château Bouscaut is mainly composed of clay-gravel soils on a limestone base. The predominantly clay-limestone composition of the Bouscaut soils gives the white wines a beautiful silky texture and a very aromatic character in both Sémillon and Sauvignon. This terroir also produces white wines with great aging potential, developing notes of flowers, dried fruit, and a smoky character. These same soils also produce excellent red wines: they are particularly suited to Merlot. The Château Bouscaut wines produced from these soils are very colorful and quite tannic, particularly rich and powerful.