Pierre de Rauzan, also known as Pierre de Mesures de Rauzan,[1] was a Bordeaux wine merchant. He served as estate manager of Château Latour. In the 1690s he began buying land in the Médoc near the village of Pauillac.
Legacy
editUpon the marriage of his daughter Thérèse to Jacques François de Pichon, Seigneur de Longueville,[2] Rauzan passed on the estate to them which became the Pichon Longueville estate that would later split to the Second growth estates of Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande and Château Pichon Longueville Baron. To his three sons, he bequeathed 60 acres (240,000 m2) of vineyards around Château Margaux that would later become the second growths of Château Rauzan-Ségla and Château Rauzan-Gassies,[3] as well as the classified growths Château Desmirail[4] and Château Marquis de Terme.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Peppercorn, David (2003). Bordeaux. London: Mitchell Beazley. pp. 98–99. ISBN 1-84000-927-6.
- ^ d'Eschavannes, Joseph Louis Edouard Jouffroy (1848). Armorial universel: précédé d'un traité complet de la science du blason et suivi d'un supplément. Curmer. p. 333.
Pichon de Longueville en Guyenne. D'azur au chevron d'or, accompagné en chef de deux molettes de même, et en pointe d'un agneau d'argent, surmontant un croissant du même.
- ^ Johnson, Hugh (1989). Vintage: the story of wine. Vol. 2. Simon and Schuster. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-671-79182-7.
- ^ "Chateau Desmirail". Decanter. 13 July 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ "Chateau Marquis de Terme". Decanter. 13 July 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
External links
edit- Château Rauzan-Ségla Profile
- Château Pichon Longueville Baron Website
- Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Website
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