A former baronage, its first known owner in the XVIth century, Nicolas de Bloys, a nobleman, married Jeanne de Fleix, lady of Blanquefort.

Wines were most probably planted in that century. In the XVIIth century, the Maréchal d'Ornano, a man with a passion for hunting and governor of Guyenne, took possession of the domain. In the middle of the XIXth century Sénéjac, produced the equivalent of 100 000 bottles of wine, not much less than what is made today. Various noblemen and knights were the successive owners of the estate until it was purchased in 1860 by the Count of Guigné. A new impulse to raise its wines to the level of the best Médoc growth was given with the purchase of the estate by Mr. and Mrs Thierry Rustmann.

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GRAPE VARIETIES
37% Merlot
49% Cabernet Sauvignon
10% Cabernet Franc
4% Petit Verdot

AVERAGE OF WINES
25 years

PLANTATION DENSITY
6.600 grape plants/hectare

Supervised Control.
MLF in new barrels
Traditional farming methods
Disbudding, two leaf-thinnings and de-stemmings

TYPE OF HARVEST
Hand harvested in wooden baskets; successive sorting (on vines and on sorting table in the winery.

FERMENTATION AND MACERATION
Stainless steel and Thermo regulated Concrete Vats
Vatting : 3 to 4 weeks
Reverse Osmosis since 2001

MALOLACTIC FERMENTATION
MLF in new barrels

12 to 15 months
33% new barrels, 33% one wine, 33% two wines
5 Barrel makers for the most part: Taransaud and Radoux

Egg white fining
Slight Filtration

The wines of Sénéjac are characterized by their deep colour, almost black, in their young years. A very expressive nose exhales fragrances of black fruit and spices. Ample and intense in the mouth, at same time Sénéjac remains sweet and civilized due to the finesse of its tannins.

It is a charming, distinguished wine that can be drunk young for its fullness and fruit or, better still, aged gently to recover the race of its soil.