Château Roquefort is a winemaking estate owned by the Bellanger family. It has a magnificent location between the Garonne and the Dordogne amid the vineyards of Bordeaux, not far from Saint-Emilion.
With 100 hectares of vines, the estate has been producing high-quality Bordeaux wines and exceptional cuvees for more than 40 years.
This is a perfect region for wine tourism: the Entre-Deux-Mers wine road has various stages taking in vineyards, nature, gastronomy, heritage, culture and even bicycle touring – the Roger Lapébie cycle path is just a kilometre from the estate.
Visit Château Roquefort and succumb to the estate’s charms as you journey through time thanks to its ancient heritage.
In 1976, Jean and Christiane Bellanger fell in love with Château Roquefort and breathed new life into this magnificent Entre-Deux-Mers vineyard.
Together they understood the terroir and were captivated by the charms of this estate steeped in history.
At the time, Château Roquefort belonged to the painter Alain de Condé, a descendant of the House of Condé and friend of Maurice Druon.
The vines disappeared during the 20th century and the artist primarily maintained the chartreuse house, preserving an 18th-century spirit and perfect harmony.
Maurice Druon later said that ‘an artist is someone with enough soul to be able to lavish upon things, with a calm abundance.’
Jean Bellanger is a man of action, with a passion for things well done and an entrepreneurial spirit.
That same year (1978), he also bought the lingerie brand Lou which he would develop in a remarkable fashion, transforming it into one of the market leaders for ‘Made in France’ lingerie during the 1980s.
In order to revive Château Roquefort, he gradually replanted the vineyard and worked with the Bordeaux Faculty of Oenology to quickly adopt the best winemaking methods.
30 hectares were planted in 1983 and the first winemaking activities began in 1987.
His wife Christiane (originally from Bordeaux) is an art lover with excellent taste: keeping with the spirit and history of the location, she took charge of restoring the thousand-year-old estate’s many history buildings.
Their son Frédéric is driven by this same family energy: he took over the reins of Château Roquefort in 1995 and continued developing the estate, which now covers 240 hectares.
He sought to expand the vineyard, but above all to integrate it within its exceptional setting of forest, fields and meadows.
Highly committed to biodiversity, in his view, the only way to enhance heritage is by listening to the terroir and respecting the generosity of its nature.
Surrounded by a faithful professional team, he works to constantly improve the quality of the wines and to create exceptional new cuvees.
The roches blanches express the mineral memory of our limestone terroirs.
The highest point in the gironde, the sauvignon blanc thrives on clay-limestone soils where fossilised oyster beds outcrop while on the limestone plateau of roquefort, the merlot vinified on the fruit gives all its richness to this cuvée.
