Chateau Lafleu-Gazin History, Overview

Chateau Lafleur-Gazin is situated not far from Chateau Lafleur and close to Chateau Gazin. As you can easily surmise, that location is where Chateau Lafleur-Gazin takes its name from.

In fact, Lafleur-Gazin is also situated very close to the famous Petrus vineyards as well! The question is, as it’s located next to so many famous names in Pomerol, it’s a wonder as to why this property does not produce a more exciting Bordeaux wine. How does that happen?

Owned by the Delfour-Borderie family, Madame Delfour-Borderie is in charge of the estate. Under a long-term rental agreement, Chateau Lafleur-Gazin has been farmed and managed on the winemaking and commercial end by Ets. Jean-Pierre Moueix since 1976.

This is not the first time the vineyard has been under a leasing agreement. Back in the early 20th century, the estate had a similar arrangement with a different Bordeaux Negociant.

Chateau Lafleur-Gazin Vineyard, Terroir, Grapes, Winemaking

The 8.5 hectare Pomerol vineyard of Chateau Lafleur-Gazin is planted to 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, which shows an increase in the Merlot and decrease in the Cabernet Franc planted here.

The terroir of Lafleur-Gazin consists of silt, gravel, clay, iron, and sandy soils. While it appears that they are on good terroir, that is not the case. The vineyard is in two distinct sections with one part having more gravel with clay soils and the other section has more sand on its slopes.

On average, the vines are kept at 30 years of age. The vineyard is planted to a vine density of 6,000 vines per hectare. The average annual production of Chateau Lafleur-Gazin is close to 3,500 cases of Bordeaux wine per year.

For the production of the wine at Lafleur-Gazin, two laser sorting tables have been in use since 2009. The winery uses thermoregulated concrete vats and since 2004, some stainless tanks were added for the fermentation. Malolactic fermentation takes place in vat. The press wine is added or not during the barrel aging.