Saint-Julien

Chateau Lagrange is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted braised and grilled dishes.

The average age of the vines is more than 35 years of age. The terroir is gravel, sand and clay soils.There are also parcels with deposits of iron. The vineyard is planted to a vine density of 8,500 vines per hectare. They use optical sorting technology during the harvest.

To produce the wine of Chateau Lagrange, vinification takes place temperature controlled, stainless steel vats that range in size. The 98 vats range in size allowing for parcel by parcel vinification. The smallest vats are 66 hectoliters with the largest vats coming in at 220 hectoliters. The grapes are vinified using co-inoculation. The selection of the press wine is performed by adding it on a vat by vat basis.

The Japanese group Suntory acquired the domain when the purchase was signed by the company president Mr Keizo Saji in1983.Marcel Ducasse was then recruited along with Kenji Suzuta to undertake the complete restructuring of the vineyard and a spectacular renovation of the whole estate. This first step was to mark the rebirth of CHÂTEAU LAGRANGE.After twenty years of dedicated work as well as human and technical investments Lagrange had once again found recognition amidst its peers and had achieved a certain sense of fulfilment.Today a new tandem Matthieu Bordes and Keiichi Shiina have taken over this quest for excellence. A second phase of investments began with the 2008 vintage offering Lagrange the technical means to follow its ambitions: The production of refined elegant and expressive wines in the best Saint-Julien style. There has also been an evolution of production methods towards a greater awareness of the environment and a reduction of ecological impact on the property.This philosophy is reflected not only in the respect shown for the domain’s History and the nurturing of its truly exceptional Terroir but also in the unique experiences shared all over the world around a glass of one of Lagrange’s wines.