Chateau Lamothe-Bergeron Haut-Medoc Cru Bourgeois
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Deemed to be one of the leading Cru Bourgeois Superieur wines of the 19th century, a status retained today, Lamothe-Bergeron has always been a benchmark Haut-Medoc wine. Chateau Lamothe-Bergeron owes part of its name and its reputation to the prestige of the agronomist Jacques de Bergeron. From 1796, this former parliamentarian dispatched to his vines by the French Revolution devoted himself to experimentation and carried out numerous trials in vine cultivation, fertilizers, combating the Medoc sand dunes, insects, making vine stakes from acacia wood, planting exotic trees etc. Jacques de Bergeron published a method of grafting vines that was to give rise to the โBergeronโ method, still used by Rhone Valley wine growers in the early 20th century. From his father he inherited Chateau Lamothe, which in the Middle Ages had been the seat of a domain known by the name of Cussac. The estate remained in the Bergeron family until the 1850s but it was only after it was acquired by Mr. dโArmana that the chateau adopted the name Lamothe-Bergeron, in order to enjoy the prestige of a name of high repute. D'Armanaโs main achievement was the construction of a new chateau, completed in 1868. In the early 1970s, the estate passed into the hands of the Mestrezat company. The vineyards were reorganised at that time and some balance was restored to the range of vines. The 1980s were marked by the complete rebuilding of the vinification wineries and the restoration of the cask winery. In the 2000s, it was the turn of Credit Agricole to set high standards. In 2009, Cognac H. Mounier and Cognac Hardy acquired the estate with great dreams and ambitions.