Château
La Croix de Gay

The legacy of half a millennium in Pomerol, Château La Croix de Gay offers an exceptional wine with a unique style, forgotten but eminently Bordeaux, a combination of a singular terroir (an exception within the exception of Pomerol) combining gravels, clay and iron oxides, the most advanced oenology (Professor Axel Marchal) and the oldest wine-growing family in the appellation.

A delicate
wine

A wine that resonates with the sensibilities of tasters. The expression of a unique and exceptional terroir, enhanced with respect. Structured above all on taste, palatability and length on the palate, the wine of Château La Croix de Gay must be a pleasure to taste, capable of accompanying the most pleasant moments to enrich the memories that we retain.

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Between ‘art’ craftsmanship and aesthetic quest

Château La Croix de Gay has cultivated a deep bond with its Pomerol terroir for centuries. Respect for the soil, essential to the expression of the Merlot and Cabernet Franc grape varieties, vinification and ageing that preserve the authenticity of the original terroir, produce wines of unique purity and complexity.

The sacred hill

“This consistency is the sensory manifestation of what is commonly, and sometimes abusively, referred to as terroir. As Denis Dubourdieu defined it, it is ‘the proven capacity of a territory to “produce” wines with a typical taste, thanks to human know-how”.

Axel MARCHAL, Valérie LAVIGNE. En Magnum, 2020,n°19

A place where the spirit breathes

Château La Croix de Gay is nestled in the heart of the hamlet of Pignon, the historic village of Pomerol in medieval times.

In this place rich in history, the attentive visitor will note the former presbytery, the sites of the cooperage workshop, the shoeing workshop, the communal well, the pediment bearing the date of the demolition of the Romanesque church and La Croix de Gay, the only historic monument in the appellation, a crossroads on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

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Over half a millennium in Pomerol

From the medieval days of the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem to the modern era, the history of Château La Croix de Gay is linked to a single family. At the end of the 19th century, the wine was trading at a higher price than Pauillac’s 1855 Crus Classés, and the 1947 vintage surpassed the legendary Château Cheval-Blanc of the same year, according to Harry Waugh, the famous British critic.

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A history of Pomerol

Pomerol, the jewel of the Bordeaux wine region, lies on the right bank of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers. A former commandery of the Hospitallers of Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem, this small vineyard with its fragmented plots is the result of the combination of a unique terroir of blue clay and gravel and the Merlot grape variety.

Pomerol offers wine-lovers exceptional wines that are profoundly original and rare, often even confidential on the scale of the Bordeaux wine-growing region.

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