Château Sémeillan Mazeau

At the entrance to Listrac, you discover château Sémeillan-Mazeau, a Cru Bourgeois of the Listrac-Médoc A.O.C., whose new owners, M. and Mme Jander, also run château Jander.
Originally, there was only one château Sémeillan, which was one of the oldest and most important growths of Listrac-Médoc. The “Sémillan” vineyard thus already appeared on the map of Guienne drawn up in 1775 by the engineer-geographer Belleyme. In 1932, château Sémeillan was classified in the category of Crus Bourgeois Supérieurs of Listrac-Médoc. In the past, château Sémeillan, after belonging to the Vicomtesse du Pavillon, became in 1925 the property of M. Hostein, and on his death was divided among his daughters, Mmes Mazeau, Balleu and Bibian. It was following this division that the part that fell to M. Mazeau and his heirs took the name Sémeillan-Mazeau.
This vineyard is located on the gravelly plateaux of Puy-de-Menjon and Champ-de-la-Grêle, the highest points of the Médoc. Already in the 18th century, vines were grown in the village of “Lagrêle”; as for Pey-de-Minjon, it was known at the time as “one of the growths distinguished by the quality of the wines gathered there”. The vineyard owes its reputation to its silica-gravel soil over a clay-limestone gravel subsoil, forming a warm-soil terroir whose rise-shaped relief avoids excess water and favours ripeness. Consisting for the most part of old vines (75% are more than 25 years old), this vineyard happily combines the fundamental elements that make it possible to obtain a quality growth.
The wines obtained have a rich and generous body and powerful aromas; they are accessible in their youth thanks to their aromatic vivacity, but blossom into finesse and elegance as they age. They have been noticed many times at the Concours Agricole de Paris (silver medal in 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1998 and gold medal in 1990 and 2000) and are often singled out in specialist reviews.