Château Cazebonne

Jean-Baptiste Duquesne is a Bordeaux Pirate, shaking up the conventions of Bordeaux bureaucracy and challenging the status quo. After his selling his French cuisine recipe sharing website, he wrote the book "Bordeaux: Une Histoire de Cépages" which is a detailed history of 19th Century grape varieties in the Bordeaux.

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Obsessed, he turned Château de Cazebonne into the largest library of ancestral grape varieties, such as: Mancin, Castets, Bouchalès, St-Macaire, Jurancon noir, Mérille, Béquignol, Pardotte, Gros Cabernet, Petit Péjac, Sauvignonasse, Penouille…. He has already planted 26 of the recognised historical varieties and aims to have all 57 planted by 2030...

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The three white wines above, show a clear ladder of style and quality starting with an unnoaked VDF mono varietal, then an unnoaked AOC Graves, sand-rooted Semillon/Sauvignon blend and finishing with a gravel-rooted AOC Graves blend which sees half 500L barriques/ half amphorae.

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Three reds follow a similar trend: an unnoaked 100% Cab, « Le Grand Vin » a sandy- gravelly merlot/cab blend that spends 11 months in barriques and « Galets de Cazebonne » a cabernet fermented and aged in amphorae.

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The yesteryear cuvées, take classic Bordeaux winemaking ideals, but blend ancient varieties. « Soif de 1900 » is the unnoaked, smashable juicy house blend (*Jurancon noir, Mérille, Béquignol, Petit Verdot) and « Comme en 1900 » is a more structured and powerful Bordeaux red (**Mancin, Castets, Bouchalès, Saint-Macaire, Jurancon Noir, Petit Verdot). the wine spends 18 months ageing in amphorae first, then barriques.

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