Château Ferrière

In the mid-17th century, Château Ferrière belonged to Gabriel Ferrière, royal broker in Bordeaux and officer of the hunts of King Louis XV. In 1777, he ceded it to his first cousins Gabriel and Jean Ferrière, bourgeois of Bordeaux, who were imprisoned during the Terror. When Robespierre fell in 1795, Jean Ferrière was appointed mayor of Bordeaux.
Sixty years later, Château Ferrière was raised to the rank of 3rd Growth in the 1855 Classification. In 1914, Henri Ferrière sold the estate to Armand Feuillerat, who also owned Château Marquis de Terme, a Cru Classé of Margaux. When Mme André Durand Feuillerat succeeded him in 1921, she put the estate out to tenant farming in favour of Château Lacombe in 1952.
It was in 1988 that the Villars Merlaut family bought Château Ferrière, and in 1992 that it took over the running of the estate when the tenancy was terminated.
Located in the commune of Margaux and with 16 hectares of vines, the estate is one of the smallest of the Grands Crus Classés. The size of its vineyard, combined with the beauty of its terroir, makes the wine of Château Ferrière a rare and sought-after product.
Its vines are located mainly in the commune of Margaux, and its terroir of deep Garonne gravel laid over limestone marl gives the wine its full expression of elegance, minerality, balance and power.
With Claire Villars-Lurton as owner and conductor – wife of Gonzague Lurton, owner of Château Durfort Vivens – this growth is stepping forward, and major renovation work was undertaken in 2013 with the aim of raising Château Ferrière to the highest level.