Château d'Armajan des Ormes


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It is not enough to be a great man to be alongside the greats of history. Such could be Armajan's adage. One of the oldest and most historic estates of the Sauternes region, the property located in the commune of Preignac was ennobled in 1565, by Charles IX in gratitude for a visit with his mother Catherine de Medici to this place. The vineyard already existed there and Armajan belonged then to Pierre Sauvage. His grandson Jacques will continue the development of the family's estates with the simple tenure of Yquem. Dismantled in 1653 during the Fronde, the reconstruction in its present form of the castle was undertaken in 1663 by the Guichaner family and was completed in 1750 by Vincent Guichaner, Lord of Armajan and son-in-law of Montesquieu. At the end of the Revolution, the castle, divided into many land lots, will take more than a century to recover its splendor and its wine-making function, through the work of the Fiton family and then Armand Gallice, wine merchant who will make the first bottling of Sauternes Château d'Armajan in 1898. When he died in 1930, the estate was gradually abandoned until 1953, when Louis Machy, a luxury leather broker, bought Armajan and undertook a vast restoration program that would last nearly 20 years accompanied by his daughter Marguerite and his son-in-law Michel Perromat. It is the latter who will complete the reconstitution of the whole of the closed vineyard of Armajan by the purchase of the vines of Château Le Juge. Jacques and Guillaume Perromat, the 6th generation of winegrowers, now run the family estate.