This property has enjoyed a dramatic renewal over the last 20 years.
A Roman villa was originally located on the site before being replaced by a fort. This in tunr was destroyed in the 17th century, to give way to the Château de Gironville, an estate with 155 hectares, of which 35 hectares of vines. Owned by Bordeaux's Mayor Mr Duffour Dubergier, who was also owner of the Château Smith-Haut-Laffitte in the Graves region, Château de Gironville produced a wine classified as "Cru Bourgeois Supérieur". Alas, in 1929, the vines were all dug up and pine trees replaced the vines...
In 1987, Rémy Fouin and the Mercier family decided to resurrect the vineyard and planted 10 hectares of vines on deep gravely soils.
Within a short timeframe, great wines were produced and Château de Gironville has obtained several medals for its vintages since 1990.

GRAPE VARIETIES : 47 % Merlot Noir, 43 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 10 % Petit Verdot.

AVERAGE AGE OF VINES : 26 years

DENSITY OF VINES : 6,666 plants/hectare

Pest management,
Traditionnal viticultural practices, including cover cropping,
Bud pruning, suckering and leaf thinning.

TYPE OF HARVESTING
Manual or mechanical picking according to the plot.
Hand-sorting after destemming.

FERMENTATION AND MACERATION
Stainless steel vats : 80-150 hl.
Pigeages during fermentation.
The wine spends 4 weeks on the skins.

MALOLACTIC FERMENTATION
25% malolactic fermentation in barrel.

14-16 months.
33% in new oak barrels, 33% in 1-wine old barrels, 33% in 2-wines old barrels.
Selected, ultrafine grain Hungarian oak from the cooper Vicard in Cognac.

Fining with fresh egg white.