Château Trigant

Our 1874 edition cited Trigant, which then belonged to the Vignolles family and produced 20 barrels of red wine. But the history of Trigant goes back much further since in the 18th century the property was already planted with vines. In 1761, a production of about 30 barrels is mentioned, when it belonged to the Desportes family of Pessac, whose granddaughter married Sieur Philippe Trigant, barrister at the Parliament of Bordeaux. Besides being a brilliant man of law, Philippe Trigant undertook, shortly before the Revolution, the construction of a chartreuse (a long, low country house). When he died in 1794, the work was unfinished and it was his daughter, Marie-Elisabeth, who completed her father’s work.
Several owners followed one another until 15 March 1860, when the Vignolles family acquired it. In 1901, the property passed to Charles Vignolles’s niece, Mme Gaston Pagès. Her granddaughter, Mme Jean Sèze, is the present owner, with her children.
In 1933, all the vines were grubbed up, it is said following enormous damage caused by hail. It was not until 1990 that the vineyard was reconstituted, the cellars reinstalled, in short, that the estate was in a state to produce. This challenge is on the way to being met, the wines of Trigant standing out for the finesse of their fruitiness, the harmony of their body and the elegance typical of the best Pessac-Léognan.