88% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc.
Traditional soil management: light ploughing and aeration of the soil with inter-row planting of cereals in the autumn. Continual program of renovation of the vines: grubbing up and replanting. Numerous
manual interventions: de-budding, leaf-thinning and green harvest.
Winemaking : vating of whole grape berry in concrete and stainless steel vats, pigeage and pumping over. 12-16 months in wooden tanks and 225 L barrels renewed by third each year. Annual production is around 56,000 bottles.
The vineyard of Puygueraud is located on a rocky plateau that overlooks the magnificent Dordogne valley, in a continuum until Saint-Emilion.
The 42 hectares of black grapes and 5 hectares of white grapes of the property are divided into 67 parcels, resting on clay and limestone soils with asterias, marl and clay subsoils.
Today 80% of the vineyard is planted in Merlot, 15% in Cabernet Franc and 5% in Malbec, the latter a grape variety dear to the founding father, George Thienpont. The whites are composed of Sauvignon Blanc and Sauvignon Gris.
The Thienpont family, a Flemish wine merchant invested since 1924 in the Pomerol vineyard of Vieux Château Certan and in 1920 with Troplong Mondot in Saint-Emilion (sold in 1935). The following generation, in 1946, George and Monica Thienpont, coming from their natal Flanders, moved into Puygueraud, restored the XVth Century chateau.