About this producer:

Rooted in history

Thought-provoking notebooks written during the French Revolution trace the story of the Bonalgue vineyard in those days. At the height of the First Empire, Captain Rabion, a veteran of Napoleon’s Grande Armée, had the house built in Saint-Emilion stone and decorated it with the arms of his regiment. The garden was adorned with magnificent cedars of Lebanon, now two hundred years old...  Château Bonalgue was thus born.

A family's devotion

When the Bourotte family acquired Château Bonalgue in 1926, Pomerol was in full revival. The vineyard was profoundly restructured and offered a source of stability for the following decades. The men who have succeeded one another since have had the pleasure of working independently and in complete freedom: Pierre Bourotte in 1961, his son Jean-Baptiste in 2005… two legendary vintages marking the transition from one generation to the next.

Working by hand and attention to detail

In the vineyard, our hands guide the way: they prune, thin out the leaves and harvest... On the label, also by hand, paper sculptor Anne-Charlotte Saliba has drawn the emblems of Château Bonalgue: a crown, mystical animals, the Maltese cross and half-moons. The sculptural relief allows a play of light and shadow. Fragile, light movement brings the historical coat of arms to life, much like the artist’s work... similar in so many ways to the winemaker’s “dance” with nature.