Yesterday and now...
Château Larruau appears on the birth certificate of the former Château Dubignon Talbot, a recognized cru in the 19th century, whose letters of nobility are then sanctioned by a place of 3rd Classified Growth during the classification of 1855.
Subsequently, shared and dispersed several times, the domain, which will finally be stripped of its surname, pledge of its notoriety, sees over time its image gradually fade. So much so that at the end of the Second World War, the grandfather of Bernard Château, the current owner, faced with economic difficulties, was forced to sell part of his vineyard, now reduced to a few hectares
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It was Bernard Château who would later have the heavy task of rebuilding an estate around this residual vineyard, with the limited means allocated to him at the start... His energy, his attachment to the family land, reinforced by the support of his sister and his brother, will be the engines, from 1971, of an obstinate search, made of purchases and successive exchanges of land which will end up composing a terroir of excellence of 12 hectares. In 1980, this new complex took the name of Larruau from the district of the village of Margaux where the old Château Dubignon was located.
In 2019, Bernard Château decided to abandon the direct management of his estate. Insensitive to the siren song attracted by this enticing wine heritage, he decided to entrust the responsibility to Miguel Martinho, owner of the eponymous château, with whom he befriended in the early 1990s. To the best techniques of the vine thanks to its profession of wine entrepreneur, therefore endeavors to continue the work undertaken...
