Château La Garde

The domain of 'Lagarde' already appears on the first general map of the Kingdom of France, made in 1756 by Cassini. The very pretty charterhouse, built in 1732, is then mainly surrounded by dales and woods. The wine business really developed on the property with the acquisition by the Lacoste family – merchants in Bordeaux in 1877. The vineyard stretches over the magnificent hillsides and plateaus of gravel while an imposing cellar is built next to the charterhouse in 1881.

After the First World War, Louis Eschenauer, a renowned merchant of ‘Chartrons’, became interested in the Domaine de La Garde which he bought in 1920.

Sometimes called Domaine de La Garde, Clos de La Garde, then Château La Garde, from this period onwards, the estate’s labels feature the coat of arms inspired by the emblem associated with Aquitaine since the Hundred Years’ War: the lion-headed leopard.