Château Rauzan Gassies

Château Rauzan Gassies

Château Rauzan Gassies is a Bordeaux wine estate located in Margaux and Cantenac in Gironde. Very close to Château Rauzan Ségla with which it was once connected, Rauzan Gassies estate has a large vineyard of 28 hectares composed mainly of Cabernet Sauvignon (65%), Merlot (25%), Cabernet Franc (5%) and Petit Verdot (5%). The wine is a Second Growth (Grand Cru Classé) in the official 1855 classification. The estate also produces a second wine 'Chevalier de Rauzan-Gassies'. Château Rauzan Gassies had four owners before Paul Quié took over in 1946. His son succeeded him in 1968, and today his grandchildren, Jean-Philippe and Anne-Françoise Quié, manage the estate.

The best vintages of the Château are 1945, 1953, the 1955 vintage and the 1959 vintage. Finally, we recommend the Rauzan Gassies 1989 or the Château Rauzan Gassies 2005.

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While the noble house of Chevalier de Gassies is one of the oldest in Margaux, the viticultural history of Château Rauzan-Gassies begins in the 18th century. This château was created by Mr. Pierre Desmezureres De Rauzan, a merchant, but also a tenant of the noble house of Latour. This position allowed him to collect seigneurial rights and increase his own patrimony. He bought numerous parcels from neighboring farmers and thus, in about twenty years, at the end of the 17th century, he created two beautiful vineyards, that of Rauzan-Gassies but also that of Pichon-Longueville, two future grand crus classés. The wines of Rauzan-Gassies have always enjoyed a certain renown in England, thanks to Mr. de Rauzan's approach of selling his harvests himself aboard a ship he chartered all the way to the port of London. Mr. de Rauzan, later a Counselor at the Parliament of Bordeaux, left his mark on the property's label in the form of wings protecting grape clusters. During the 1855 classification, the wines of Rauzan Gassies were classified as second growths.

It was in 1946 that Mr. Paul Quie, a certified wine broker in Bercy (Wine trading center for Paris and its region) whose father was already in the profession, bought this vineyard, thus following in the footsteps of numerous predecessors, such as Mr. Rhoné-Péraire who, in the 19th century, had a particularly positive impact on the reputation of the vintage. In 1968, his son Jean Michel took over the management of the estate, assisted since 1995 by Mr. Jean-Louis Camp, and since 2001 by his children, Anne-Françoise and Jean-Philippe Quie.

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