Le Seuil de Mazeyres 2019

Those who have had the chance to meet Alain Moueix know that his wines resemble the man. At Château Mazeyres just as at Fonroque (a Grand Cru Classé in Saint-Émilion), he vinifies wines that tend more towards restraint, length on the palate and elegance rather than power and exuberance. Alain Moueix has made Château Mazeyres a Pomerol estate to be closely watched.
Until the end of the 1980s, the vineyard barely covered 8 hectares (less than 20 acres). Only when the estate was bought by the Caisse de Retraite de la Société Générale and Alain Moueix arrived at the helm in 1992, did Mazeyres find new momentum. A quarter of a century later, the work undertaken bore its fruit. Sold in 2010 to SOGECAP, the life insurance branch of the Société Générale, the château is run “like a family estate”, which allows Alain Moueix to pursue his wine-growing convictions in total freedom: in the field of organic-growing, for which trials were introduced in 2010, leading to the completion of organic conversion in 2015. Then in the practice of biodynamic growing which culminated in the first certified vintage being made in 2018. A vine-growing approach which, in the words of the director, “brings more freshness, relief and life to the wine”. In July 2020, the Guillard family, already owners of Château Fonroque, acquired Château Mazeyres and gave the team the means to continue the progress made.

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we dare not that they seem difficult”

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