Chateau Marjosse

Located in the Entre-deux-Mers region on the right bank of Bordeaux, Château Marjosse is a Carthusian monastery built in 1782. The original owner, Bernard Chénier, a wine merchant from Bordeaux, moved here with his family and planted the first vines on 56 different plots. Adjacent to the Charterhouse, the first winery consisted of rectangular cement vats for fermenting the must.

Château Marjosse was later bought by Alban Deleuze, owner of the Magasins du Louvre in Paris, who carried out extensive work around the Chartreuse and gradually decided to delegate winemaking to the château's administrators. In 1990, Alban Deleuze's son, Georges, leased some plots to a young winegrower, Pierre Lurton.

In 1992, Pierre Lurton, who had grown up at Château Reynier next to this beautiful Chartreuse, moved into a second home at Château Marjosse and over the years bought several parts of the estate from the Deleuze family.

In 2000, Pierre Lurton built a state-of-the-art cellar with more than 40 cement barrels and in 2013 he became the owner of the entire 40-hectare vineyard and of the Chartreuse.

The vineyard of Château Marjosse is located on a clay-limestone soil and is made up of young and old vines, some of which are more than a hundred years old. Merlot, malbec, cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon are the grape varieties grown in the vineyards destined for the production of Château Marjosse red. The vineyard dedicated to the production of Château Marjosse white covers 12 hectares, with vines ranging in age from 25 to 75 years for the oldest. The grape varieties are Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris, Sémillon and Muscadelle.

Together with Jean-Marc Domme, technical director of the château since 2017, Pierre Lurton applies to the wines of Château Marjosse the principles of the vinification of the other prestigious châteaux for which he is responsible. For the first time in the history of the estate, parcel-based vinification has been introduced, with the creation of micro-cuvées in limited quantities with grapes from the most remarkable parcels, in order to express the characteristics and microclimate of each parcel.

Château Marjosse produces Entre-deux-Mers wines of great elegance and aromatic richness.