Château de Panigon

Château de Panigon extends all around and close to the operating centre.
The vineyard lies on gravel rises worthy of the best terroirs of the Médoc.
Its owners take the greatest care over its cultivation and vinification. Modern equipment is used in the purest respect of Médoc tradition; a barrel cellar allows the whole harvest to pass through oak casks.
The entire production is bottled at the château; the very fruity wine, with fine and dense tannins, enjoys a very good reputation.
The estate buildings and the château itself regularly undergo major renovations.
Considered a cru bon bourgeois before the 1855 classification, confirmed by the 1932 classification, then in the 1978 union ranking, and benefiting from very substantial investment, Château de Panigon has a perfectly secure future.
This growth wins flattering awards at various competitions, including a gold medal at the Concours de Bordeaux 2012 for the 2010 vintage, scores of 90/100 from Neal Martin and Robert Parker, and 90+ from Decanter.
Panigon appears for the first time from the pen of Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel. The author tells of the voyage of Panurge and Pantagruel, determined to go and consult the oracle of the Divine Bottle, and of Pantagruel’s reception by King St Panigon and his court on the island of Chely.
More seriously, the origins of Château de Panigon are said to predate the French Revolution. The first edition of the guide Cooks Bordeaux et ses Vins, dated 1850, already mentions Panigon, and the second edition of 1868 cites it among the Crus Bourgeois.