Château Siran

At Labarde, on an admirably exposed gravel plateau, château Siran spreads its 25 hectares of remarkably well-tended vines.
On 14 September 1428, Guilhem de Siran swore feudal oath in the church of Macau to the abbot of Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux, on which this sanctuary parish depended.
The property sometimes bears the name Saint-Siran in honour of a holy abbot, originally from Burgundy, who after pilgrimages to Rome returned to Gaul and settled in Toulouse in the time of the Frankish king Clotaire II.
Later, at the end of the 17th century, the property was already producing wine that would enjoy a fine reputation from the 18th century; the period when the Miailhe family settled in Bordeaux as wine brokers under a royal concession.
It was in the 19th century, on 14 January 1859 precisely, that the château became the property of the Miailhe family.
Their ancestor, Léo Barbier, bought the estate for 100,000 francs from the Count and Countess of Toulouse-Lautrec, the grandparents of the famous painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
From then on, the descendants succeeded one another in respect of family tradition.
In 2007, the fifth generation of the family, in the person of Édouard Miailhe, took over the management of the estate.
Château Siran is one of the few Bordeaux estates to have belonged to the same family for more than 150 years.
Bel Air de Siran (AOC Médoc) and Saint-Jacques de Siran (AOC Bordeaux Supérieur) are also the fruit of the property’s know-how.