Château La Gomerie

A well-rated château, La Gomerie is located on the road leading out of Saint-Émilion towards Libourne. It is owned by the Bécot family of Beau-Sejour Bécot and its wine could be called a vin de garage. It is one of the smallest properties in Bordeaux, with only 2.5 hectares (producing 800 cases) and was originally purchased with the thought of blending it into Beau-Séjour. But when they produced their first vintage in 1995, it received such acclaimed reviews from Robert Parker and Stephen Tanzer that they decided to keep it separate and sell it for an even higher price than Beau-Séjour Bécot. Its vines are planted to 100% Merlot on a fine sandy soils with deeper layers of clay and iron oxide. Once picked, the grapes are then fermented in stainless steel tanks before being aged in two different types of oak. Following a fire in 2011 where a large part of La Gomerie's château was destroyed, the Bécots decided to finally integrate the vines from La Gomerie into Beauséjour-Bécot. Thus, the final vintage of Château La Gomerie was the 2011.