Château du Cros

To form a serious opinion of the situation of château du Cros and the beauty of the hillsides that produce the highly reputed wine of its vines, one need only open at page 58 the important illustrated work by M. André Rebsomen entitled “La Garonne et ses affluents de la rive gauche de La Réole à Bordeaux”, where one can read: “But the finest view, without contradiction, of the whole region we have to describe is that enjoyed from the top of château du Cros, built on the sheer rock, at almost 100 metres altitude”.
The history of château du Cros is closely linked to that of English Guyenne. In 1196, Richard the Lionheart gave a fief, the Cros estate, to Sieur Boson de Casau. Then in 1274, King Edward I gave it to Sieur Guilhem Arnaud. But in 1322, Bernard de Ségur obtained from King Edward II authorisation to fortify, by encircling it with a wall of stone and lime, a fort on the heights of Loupiac which became château du Cros.
In 1921, François Thevenot, grandfather of Michel Boyer, acquired this estate from the Count de La Chassaigne, a descendant of Michel de Montaigne.
Today, the château du Cros estate is a unit of 90 hectares straddling the communes of Loupiac and Sainte-Croix-du-Mont. The soils are clay-limestone and rest on a rock of coarse limestone, as the fossil oysters testify.
The white wines produced are of exceptional quality and have been honoured with numerous distinctions. They are particularly well known and appreciated in Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Switzerland.
The Boyer family also owns, in the same commune, château des Roches; in the commune of Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, château Lépine; as well as, in the commune of Cérons, château Mayne du Cros, at Toulenne château de Courbon and at Paillet Clos Bourbon in the Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux appellation.