Château Reynon Bordeaux Blanc 2022

The Dubourdieu family were already cultivating vines in the area of the Graves wines just after the French Revolution. Evidence of this can be found in the village of Cérons as far back as 1794. In 1924 Georges Dubourdieu purchased an 1855 cru classé : Château Doisy Daëne. His youngest son, Pierre, successfully ran it from the late forties up until 2003. Pierre progressively also took on his father in law’s property in Barsac, namely Château Cantegril. Pierre’s only son, Denis and his wife, Florence, both from old Bordelais winemaking families, at that time had embarked on other projects : namely the purchase of Château Reynon in the Côtes de Bordeaux in 1976 and the creation of Clos Floridène in the Graves in 1982. In the early 2000’s they acquired and developed a13 hectare vineyard in the Graves to make red wines – Château Haura. The fourth generation, Fabrice and Jean Jacques Dubourdieu joined this family adventure in 2004 and 2006 respectively. A regrouping of all the estates took place in 2003 when Pierre Dubourdieu retired. In 2004 this group of estates, controlled exclusively by the family, was named – Denis Dubourdieu Estates. It covers in excess of 135 hectares, divided into more than 300 portions of land spanning 5 villages. And in 2014 the family purchased a second cru classé, Doisy Dubroca in Barsac, neighbouring Doisy Daëne.

Château Reynon is where Denis Dubourdieu developed and defined the style of his famous dry Sauvignon Blancs, which earned him the nickname of the ‘Pope of Whites’ and contributed to his worldwide renown.