Lorgeril - Languedoc

The history of our family started at Pennautier in 1620 under the reign of Louis XIII, when Bernard de Pennautier, Treasurer of the States of Languedoc, laid the first stone of the château...

On 14 July 1622, the young king of France came to visit. As a gesture of gratitude to his host, he offered him his travel furniture, which is still kept in the room Louis XIII stayed in.

Taking over from his father in 1650, Pierre Louis de Pennautier decided to build an extension to the château and entrusted the work to the architect Le Vau, who designed Versailles, and to the famous landscape designer Le Nôtre.

This Minister of Finance and admirer of Molière was Colbert's "man" in Languedoc. He financed major works such as the construction of the Canal du Midi.

Eight generations came and went. In 1921, the last Pennautier by name, Paule de Pennautier, married Christian de Lorgeril, a Breton gentleman.

At the family home Château de Pennautier, where vines had always grown, the history of Vignobles de Lorgeril commenced, going hand in hand with that of the Languedoc, which was to start its rebuilding process in the 1980's.

In 1987, when Nicolas took over from his parents, the history of Vignobles de Lorgeril truly became our History.

In 1992, Nicolas's wife Miren de Saint Chamas took over as director of Vignobles de Lorgeril and threw herself into the job. She has remained there ever since, working alongside her husband and driven by the intuition that it is here, in the foothills of the mountains, that the great wines of southern France will best flourish.

Since then we have acquired five other estates in the south of France and continued to develop our expertise, shipping our wines to all four corners of the earth.