The property remains faithful to the tradition of harvest by hand: every year more than 100 people pick the grapes according to the degree of maturity and the age of the plots: the Merlot, early variety, inaugurates the harvest and the Cabernet with Petit Verdot, late varieties, close them. Cabernet Sauvignon (62%), Merlot (28%), Cabernet Franc (7%) and Petit Verdot (3%): the variety and proportion of Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is unique in the appellation. In-depth studies of soils and subsoils have resulted in a very precise mapping of the many plots and a better knowledge of the terroir.Ī vineyard replanting program has also been launched, favoring a better match between the grape variety, its rootstock and the nature of the soil. In 2007, it will be the turn of the C hampagne House Louis Roederer to ensure the good continuity of this property once again became, since the 1950s, one of the most renowned vintages in the region. The heirs of the Countess must then resolve to sell the vineyard and the owners who will follow will thus relentlessly to the revival of the vineyard. The price of wine is inexorably going down, barely covering operating costs. Unfortunately, after his death, began difficult years marked by a vineyard devastated by powdery mildew, mildew, fraud, then the Great War that dealt a fatal blow to the wine economy. Her passion for the vineyard as well as the quality of her management make her a remarkable personality who will leave to the domain an style attached to her name. In those same 1850s, Virginie Comtesse de Lalande took the lead of the estate and asks the Bordeaux architect Duphot for a residence inspired by the Hôtel de Lalande in Bordeaux where her husband had spent his childhood. In 1855, the quality of the wines is rewarded because the Château reaches the rank of Second Classified Growth. Thus begins the story of one of the largest vineyards in Bordeaux, kept in the same family for more than 250 years. A little later, his daughter receives him as a dowry for his marriage to Jacques François de Pichon Longueville, President of the Parliament of Bordeaux.
The history of this estate began in 1686, when Pierre de Mazure Rauzan, rich merchant and bourgeois of Bordeaux, bought parcels of vines near the seigniory of Latour and created a vineyard, the Enclos Rauzan.
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