Chateau Tertre Roteboeuf

Château Tertre Roteboeuf

Château Tertre Roteboeuf is owned by François Mitjavile, a philosophically minded winegrower with an idiosyncratic style. He makes extraordinarily pure wines for which he only harvests the grapes when they are at the extreme of their maturation process. The grapes are already raisin-like. As a result, yields are particularly low, sometimes below 20 hl/ha. The soil of the vineyard consists of limestone and clay, which has a cooling effect that allows François to harvest his grapes late.

François is a passionate and charismatic man who works differently from everyone else, refusing to join the "Bordeaux circus", as he calls it. We were able to convince him to deliver a few cases of his fabulous wines to us. His wines were discovered in 1987 by Robert Parker, who has since continued to describe the wines with the most laudatory superlatives.

The Mitjavile family also owns Domaine de Cambes and Roc de C on the right bank