The Best Wineries in Saint-Émilion

Château Adaugusta

Saint Hippolyte, France

Château Adaugusta is a small Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate in Saint Hippolyte, founded in 2006 by Gérard and Catherine Canuel. Its appeal is terroir-led rather than spectacle-led: old Merlot and Cabernet Franc vines, clay-limestone soils, small-scale production, and a quiet tasting format that suits drinkers who want Bordeaux explained at vineyard level.

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Château Amélisse

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Amélisse is a quiet Saint-Émilion Grand Cru AOC estate for drinkers who care about Right Bank structure without the theatre of a grand château circuit. Its focus sits on Merlot-led red wine, mid-term cellaring, and a traditional Libournais register: balanced claret, cellar context, and a small-scale visit by reservation.

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Château Angelus

Saint-Émilion, France

One of Saint-Émilion's most closely watched estates, Château Angélus earned its Premier Grand Cru Classé 'A' status through decades of precise work on the limestone and clay soils of the appellation's western slope. Under Hubert de Boüard de Laforest, the estate's Merlot-dominant blends have become a reference point for Right Bank power and structure.

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Château Armens

Saint Pey D Armens, France

Château Armens puts Saint-Émilion Grand Cru in a quiet, estate-grounded register: Merlot-led Right Bank wine from 25 hectares around an 18th-century country house in Saint-Pey-d’Armens. The interest is not spectacle but terroir discipline, with sustainable vineyard work, HVE certification, manual harvest, and a cellar regime that keeps oak in a supporting role.

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Chateau Ausone

Saint-Émilion, France

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Château Balestard La Tonnelle

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Balestard La Tonnelle frames Saint-Émilion through altitude, limestone, and centuries of right-bank continuity. The draw is not spectacle for its own sake, but the combination of a 15th-century tower, a 400 m² panoramic terrace, sustainable viticulture, and a Grand Cru Classé red built around Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Cabernet Sauvignon.

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Château Barde-Haut

Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes, France

A Right Bank estate for readers who care about place before polish: limestone plateau, Merlot-led structure, and a Saint-Émilion Grand Cru AOC frame. Château Barde-Haut works in a concentrated, energetic register, with 17 hectares of vineyard, an 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc blend, and a history reaching back to 1776.

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Château Barrail du Blanc

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Barrail du Blanc is a small family-owned Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate shaped by gravel-and-clay soils, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and a working-cellar sensibility rather than polished visitor theatre. Its appeal is terroir-led: seven hectares, vines averaging 25 years old, stainless-steel vinification and partial ageing in French oak, with a supple right-bank red built for measured drinking rather than spectacle.

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Château Barrail Saint André

Saint Etienne De Lisse, France

Château Barrail Saint André is a small family-run Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate in Saint Etienne De Lisse, shaped by clay-limestone soils, mature Merlot vines, and a cellar program that favors structure over spectacle. The draw is a quiet, education-led tasting format with 100% Merlot wines, HVE level 3 certification, and guidance from Hubert de Boüard behind the estate’s recent development.

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Château Beau-Séjour Bécot

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Beau-Séjour Bécot gives Saint-Émilion visitors a limestone-plateau reading of right-bank Bordeaux: Merlot-led red wine, Cabernet Franc structure, underground cellars, and vineyard-facing calm. The estate’s Premier Grand Cru Classé B status, 17 hectares of vines, and 1969 Bécot family chapter make it a serious stop for travellers interested in terroir rather than spectacle.

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Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse belongs to the limestone-driven side of Saint-Émilion, where slope, exposure, and old Merlot-Cabernet Franc plantings matter more than visitor theatre. The 6.8-hectare Premier Grand Cru Classé estate has been tied to the Duffau-Lagarrosse family since 1847, with a quiet, vineyard-led format focused on serious red Bordeaux.

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Château Bélair-Monange

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Bélair-Monange occupies a defining position on Saint-Émilion's limestone plateau, where the geology that distinguishes the appellation's upper tier is most legible in the glass. Visitors come to understand what the côte can produce at its most concentrated.

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Château Bellefont-Belcier

Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, France

Château Bellefont-Belcier frames Saint-Émilion through slope, limestone and Merlot rather than spectacle. The 18th-century château, 14 hectares of vines and 1890 gravity-fed circular vat room give the visit architectural weight, while the wine program stays focused on still red Saint-Émilion Grand Cru expression.

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Château Bellevue

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Bellevue is a small Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé estate shaped by clay-limestone slopes, old-vine Merlot and a 17th-century chartreuse above limestone caves. The appeal is not spectacle but terroir: organic farming, tiny production and a 100% Merlot focus place the estate in the Right Bank’s more concentrated, cellar-minded tradition.

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Château Bellevue-Mondotte

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Bellevue-Mondotte is a tiny Saint-Émilion Grand Cru AOC estate on the limestone plateau, focused on concentrated Merlot-led red wine rather than cellar-door tourism. With about 2 hectares, old vines, native-yeast fermentation and 18 months in new French oak, it belongs to the small-production, high-intensity side of Right Bank Bordeaux.

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Château Bellisle Mondotte

Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, France

Château Bellisle Mondotte is a small Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate in Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, working 4–4.5 hectares of clay-limestone slope with Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The appeal is terroir over theatre: organic certification from 2012, biodynamic practice from the 2015 vintage, manual harvest, French oak élevage, and a quiet vineyard setting built for focused wine education rather than spectacle.

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Château Berliquet

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Berliquet belongs to the limestone-and-clay conversation that defines serious Saint-Émilion: Merlot-led, Cabernet Franc-supported, and increasingly precise under Chanel’s Vignobles team. Founded in 1768, the estate is compelling less as a grand gesture than as a study in plateau terroir, small-scale production, and the modern tightening of Right Bank Bordeaux.

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Château Bernateau

Saint Etienne De Lisse, France

Château Bernateau is a small family-owned Saint-Émilion Grand Cru AOC estate in Saint Etienne De Lisse, framed by organically farmed vines and a historic château setting. The draw is terroir education rather than spectacle: Merlot-led reds, cellar context, and a quiet vineyard format that makes the clay-limestone hills east of Saint-Émilion legible in the glass.

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Château Blanche Hermine

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Blanche Hermine is a small Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate with a quiet, vineyard-led character and confidential production. Its interest lies in a red-wine profile that gives Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc meaningful space alongside Merlot, making it a useful stop for drinkers who want to read Saint-Émilion through blend structure rather than cellar-door spectacle.

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Château Boutisse

Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes, France

Château Boutisse brings a polished Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé lens to a single-block clay-limestone estate in Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes. The draw is terroir clarity rather than spectacle: organic farming, mature Merlot-led plantings, restrained oak, and a visitor format suited to focused wine education rather than high-energy château tourism.

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Château Cadet-Bon

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Cadet-Bon is a small Saint-Émilion estate shaped by clay-limestone soils, Merlot-led red wines and a quiet château-and-cellar atmosphere. Its Grand Cru Classé status, organic farming and intimate tasting format place the emphasis on terroir rather than spectacle, making it a considered stop for visitors who want Saint-Émilion at estate scale.

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Château Canon

Saint-Émilion, France

One of Saint-Émilion's oldest continuously producing estates, Château Canon has operated from its limestone plateau position since 1770. The estate's approach to the plateau's clay-limestone soils anchors it in the regenerative viticulture conversation that is reshaping the appellation's upper tier.

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Château Canon La Gaffelière

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Canon-la-Gaffelière sits on the limestone and clay soils below Saint-Émilion's plateau, where the von Neipperg family has built one of the appellation's most closely watched estates. Visits are best timed to the cooler months, when the cellar programme is in full swing and the estate's barrel work is most visible.

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Château Cantin

Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes, France

Château Cantin gives Saint-Émilion Grand Cru a historic Right Bank frame: 17th-century monastic buildings, clay-limestone slopes, Merlot-led reds and a quiet estate format rather than design-led spectacle. The draw is terroir clarity, with sustainable viticulture, guided tasting formats and a setting that keeps the focus on vineyard, courtyard and cellar logic.

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Château Cap de Mourlin

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Cap de Mourlin is a family-run Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé estate shaped by clay-limestone soils, Merlot-led Right Bank blends, and a long Capdemourlin family tenure. The appeal is terroir literacy rather than spectacle: a small-scale visit, still-red focus, guided formats, and a historic estate setting that makes the northern slopes of Saint-Émilion feel legible in the glass.

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Château Capet-Guillier

Saint Hippolyte, France

The draw is the full-day oenology rhythm: vines, cellar context, guided tasting, and food in an estate setting that keeps the land at the center of the visit.

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Château Carteau Côtes Daugay

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Carteau Côtes Daugay is a family-run Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate shaped by clay-limestone slopes, Merlot-led Right Bank blending and a guided vineyard-to-cellar format. Its appeal is not spectacle but scale: 16 hectares, hand harvesting, 12 to 15 months in oak and a visit that keeps terroir, craft and family continuity in view.

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Château Chauvin

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Chauvin gives Saint-Émilion’s north-west sector a clear, terroir-led reading: Merlot-led red wine from a 15-hectare single-block vineyard on sandy-clay soils with iron-rich subsoil. The visit format is compact and educational, centred on vineyard context, renovated cellars, and a contemporary tasting room looking back across the vines.

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Château Cheval Blanc

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Cheval Blanc has produced wine from its Saint-Émilion estate since 1821, making it one of the oldest continuously operating domaines on the Right Bank.

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Château Cheval Noir

Bordeaux, France

Château Cheval Noir is a small Saint-Émilion property in Bordeaux shaped by old Merlot vines, siliceous soils, and iron-rich subsoil. The appeal is not spectacle but terroir: a Right Bank red-wine idiom built around Merlot, oak aging, and a restrained, appointment-led estate format.

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Château Clos Badon Thunevin

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Clos Badon Thunevin is a compact Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé estate shaped by sandy-gravel, clay and limestone soils below the Côte Pavie. The draw is not spectacle but scale: Merlot and Cabernet Franc, manual harvest, new French oak, and a village-linked tasting format that makes terroir legible without turning the visit into theatre.

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Château Clos de Sarpe

Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes, France

Château Clos de Sarpe is a small Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes estate for drinkers who care about limestone, old vines, and restrained cellar work more than showpiece architecture. Its Saint-Émilion Grand Cru identity rests on Merlot-led reds from a 3–3.7 hectare family property, organic farming, concrete tanks, French oak, and a quiet appointment-only visit format.

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Château Clos Fourtet

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Clos Fourtet is a Saint-Émilion estate producing Merlot-dominant wines from limestone plateau vineyards on the plateau calcaire. Its position along the ancient town walls places it among the appellation's most historically rooted estates, operating within Saint-Émilion's Premier Grand Cru Classé tier alongside a compact peer group of plateau-focused producers.

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Château Clos St. Emilion Philippe

Saint-Émilion, France

A tiny, family-run Saint-Émilion estate focused on Merlot and Cabernet Franc from a 1.15-hectare vineyard. The appeal is not polished château theatre but a quiet, close-range look at vines, cellar work, and Saint-Émilion AOC red wine through a guided, personal format.

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Château Corbin

Montagne, France

Château Corbin is a historic Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate in Montagne, shaped by Merlot-led Bordeaux tradition and a single-block vineyard near the Pomerol edge. Its appeal is less about spectacle than continuity: 15th-century origins, family stewardship through female heirs, and a calm visitor format built around the vineyard rather than a hospitality complex.

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Château Corbin Michotte

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Corbin Michotte is a quiet Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate shaped by iron-rich sands, clay-loam and a Merlot-led Right Bank blend. The draw is not spectacle but terroir: small-scale red-wine production, private tastings, English and French tours, and a traditional estate format suited to visitors who care about soil, structure and vintage variation.

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Château Côte de Baleau

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Côte de Baleau gives Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé a more relaxed register: historic château, vineyard views, Merlot-led wines, and visits built around education rather than spectacle. The draw is terroir clarity, with limestone-clay vineyards, small-estate scale, and a tasting format suited to travelers who want context as much as cellar-door polish.

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Château Coutet

Saint-Émilion, France

Operating since 1779, Château Coutet is one of Saint-Émilion's oldest wine estates, guided today by winemaker Aline Baly and. The property sits within a appellation where limestone and clay soils have shaped Merlot-dominant blends for over two centuries, offering visitors a direct encounter with the long arc of right-bank Bordeaux winemaking.

Château Couvent des Jacobins

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Couvent des Jacobins brings Saint-Émilion’s monastic wine history into a compact Grand Cru Classé visit, with caves running 11 meters beneath the village and a focus on Merlot-led red wine. The appeal is less flash than context: clay-limestone soils, organic farming, gravity-flow handling, and a calm cellar format that suits travelers who want the village’s wine culture explained through place rather than spectacle.

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Château Croix de Labrie

Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes, France

Château Croix de Labrie sits in the small-production Saint-Émilion Grand Cru camp, where limestone, clay and close vineyard work matter more than scale. The estate’s 5.78 hectares, Merlot-led plantings and organic farming give the visit a focused, terroir-first character, with guided tastings set around a historic 17th-century property in Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes.

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Château Figeac

Saint-Émilion, France

One of Saint-Émilion's oldest documented estates, Château Figeac holds a first vintage dating to 1776 and sits on a gravel plateau at the western edge of the appellation, placing it in a distinct terroir tier from the limestone-dominant Right Bank norm. Guided by winemaker Frédéric Faye and.

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Château Franc Mayne

Saint-Émilion, France

A small Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé estate where limestone, clay and Merlot define the visit more than cellar theatrics. Château Franc Mayne combines cave tours, organically farmed vines, modern energy-efficient cellars and a 10-room vineyard guesthouse, with tastings positioned in an accessible premium range for the appellation.

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Château Jean Faure

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Jean Faure reads Saint-Émilion through Cabernet Franc rather than Merlot dominance: 18 continuous hectares of deep clay, certified organic in 2017 and biodynamic by Biodyvin in 2023. The estate’s appointment-led tastings suit visitors who want terroir, farming, and Right Bank structure explained with more precision than theatre.

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Château La Clotte

Saint-Émilion, France

Château La Clotte is a small Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé estate where limestone, scale, and recent Vauthier family stewardship matter more than visitor theatre. The draw is a 3-hectare Right Bank vineyard, Merlot-led wines, underground grotto cellars, and a production profile that speaks to collectors who care about terroir expression rather than estate spectacle.

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Château La Gaffelière

Talence, France

Château La Gaffelière operates from the Talence address shared with La Mission Haut-Brion, a location that places it inside one of Bordeaux's most studied stretches of urban-fringe viticulture. Visitors approaching this address encounter the layered character of left-bank Bordeaux at close range.

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Château La Mondotte

Saint-Émilion, France

Château La Mondotte sits on a narrow limestone terrace in Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, producing one of Saint-Emilion's most allocation-driven right-bank Merlot blends under winemaker Stephan von Neipperg. Visits require planning well ahead of the harvest season.

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Château Larcis Ducasse

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Larcis Ducasse sits on the limestone-clay slopes east of Saint-Émilion's medieval centre. The estate's position within Saint-Émilion's most demanding appellation tier places it among the appellation's compact group of high-calibre producers. For serious Bordeaux collectors, it represents one of the Right Bank's more quietly regarded addresses.

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Château Larmande

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Larmande is a historic Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé estate documented since 1585, set within a single 20-hectare vineyard holding near the village. Its appeal is terroir-led rather than theatrical: Merlot-dominant Right Bank structure, clay-limestone and sandy soils, HVE Level 3 farming, and a measured use of amphora alongside French oak.

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Château Le Tertre Roteboeuf

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Le Tertre Roteboeuf occupies a quiet plateau east of Saint-Émilion's medieval core, where winemaker François Mitjavile has spent decades producing some of the appellation's most discussed right-bank Merlot. Visiting requires planning: allocation access is limited and demand consistently outpaces supply.

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Château Mangot

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Mangot is a Saint-Émilion estate for visitors who want terroir explained rather than merely poured. Its appeal sits in the details: clay-limestone slopes, 21 vineyard plots, organic and biodynamic farming, and a guided format that connects viticulture to what ends up in the glass.

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Château Pavie

Saint-Émilion, France

The estate occupies one of the appellation's most geologically complex sites, where clay, limestone, and sandy soils converge across a single slope. For serious collectors, it sits at the upper tier of Right Bank Bordeaux.

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Château Pavie Macquin

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Pavie Macquin sits among Saint-Émilion's upper-tier Right Bank estates. Located at 1 Peygenestau on the plateau adjacent to the appellation's most celebrated vineyards, it represents the kind of address that rewards planning well in advance. Visitors arriving with context — on the classification system, the terroir, and the booking process — get considerably more from the experience.

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Château Peby Faugeres

Saint-Émilion, France

The estate occupies the quieter fringes of the appellation, where the competitive set thins and terroir distinctions between plateau and hillside become most legible. For collectors tracking right-bank Bordeaux with serious recognition, it warrants close attention.

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Château Quintus

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Quintus reads Saint-Émilion through height, limestone and biodiversity rather than spectacle. Created in 2011 under Domaine Clarence Dillon, the estate works roughly 42 hectares under vine on a high Right Bank promontory, with Merlot and Cabernet Franc shaped by slope, exposure and a rare Mediterranean green belt.

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Château Rocheyron

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Rocheyron is a small Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate shaped by limestone, low yields and biodynamic farming rather than cellar-door theatre. Its 8.45 hectares, planted mainly to Merlot with Cabernet Franc, produce a focused Right Bank red under the stewardship of Peter Sisseck and Silvio Denz.

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Château Soutard

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Soutard gives Saint-Émilion wine tourism a rare combination: old Right Bank lineage, a visible limestone-plateau identity, and a modern gravity-fed cellar built for teaching rather than spectacle. The estate’s Grand Cru Classé status, 30-hectare vineyard and Merlot-led blend make it a serious stop for visitors who want terroir explained through architecture, vineyard practice and glass.

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Château Troplong Mondot

Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, France

Sitting on the limestone plateau above Saint-Émilion, Château Troplong Mondot has produced wine from its hilltop terroir since 1829.. The site's elevation and clay-limestone soils give its Merlot-dominant blends a structure that places them in direct conversation with the appellation's grands crus classés.

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Château TrotteVieille

Saint-Émilion, France

The property draws a loyal following of collectors who return for the structured, age-worthy reds that characterise the appellation's plateau terroir. Plan visits around harvest season for the fullest expression of the estate's working rhythm.

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Château Valandraud

Saint-Émilion, France

Château Valandraud is one of Saint-Émilion's defining garage wine estates, the property that effectively established the garagiste movement on the Right Bank. Winemaker Jean-Luc Thunevin produces Merlot-dominant wines from parcels on the limestone-clay plateau east of the town. The estate sits at 1589 route de Jappeloup in Saint-Étienne-de-Lisse.

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Le Dome

Saint-Émilion, France

Situated at Les Verdiannes on the appellation's limestone plateau, it represents the micro-négociant wave that reshaped Saint-Émilion's premium tier in the late 1990s. Allocation volumes are limited and demand from collector markets runs consistently ahead of supply.

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