Château Lamothe-Bergeron

Bourgeois since the beginning. Considered one of the leading Cru Bourgeois Supérieur in the 19th century and confirmed in this status today, Lamothe-Bergeron has always been a benchmark in the Haut-Médoc. The château owes part of its name and renown to the prestige of agronomist Jacques de Bergeron. As early as 1796, this former parliamentarian, who had been returned to his vineyards by the French Revolution, began experimenting and publishing numerous essays on vine growing, fertilizers, sand dune control, insects, the use of acacia to make carassons, the planting of exotic trees...

Jacques de Bergeron publishes a method of grafting vines that gives rise to the "Bergeron" method, still used by winegrowers in the Rhône Valley in the early 20th century.
Through his father, he inherits Château Lamothe, 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 wasn't until Monsieur d'Armana acquired it that the château took the name Lamothe-Bergeron, in order to benefit from the prestige of a renowned name. Armana's main project 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 restructured and the grape varieties re-balanced. The 1980s saw the complete renovation of the winery and the barrel cellar. In the 2000s, Crédit Agricole in turn maintained its high standards. In 2009, the Cognac houses H. Mounier and Hardy acquired the property with great ambitions. It will be sold to CAPSSA in November 2019, who will continue to provide all the efforts undertaken over the last 10 years.