Château Bernadotte

Château Bernadotte, a cru Bourgeois located in the commune of Saint Sauveur which borders the Pauillac appellation to the west, was purchased by Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande in 1997. This property particularly interested Madame de Lencquesaing, the then owner of Pichon. She was attracted by the quality of the soil - a very fine plateau of gravel on clay - and by its proximity to prestigious classified growths. It also enabled her to offer a more extensive selection of wines with a wider price range, but always with reference to and under the signature of Pichon. The name Bernadotte was given to this growth in honour of Marshal Bernadotte, appointed Sovereign Prince by Napoleon I and voted in by the Swedish people to succeed their King Charles XIII, who died without an heir in 1818. In 1998, May-Eliane de Lencquesaing and her team made important investments not only in the château, vat room and cellars but also in the vineyard (a study was made of the soil, vine-stock was replaced, and parcels replanted). New buildings for storage have been built and the property today is fully equipped with all the facilities necessary for the elaboration of a great wine. In 2007, Château Bernadotte as well as Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande became the property of the Louis Roederer Champagne house.