Château Angludet: Splintering and Consolidation
Unsurprisingly, as various family members sold what they owned, the estate seemed to splinter further, and new proprietors took possession. The most significant figure was Paul Promis (1832 – 1916), the grandson of Marc Promis, who had previously owned Château Giscours. He acquired the section which had belonged to Henri Legras, 33 hectares of the original estate including 11 hectares of vines, which was a quarter of the estate but more like two-fifths of the original vineyard, with the planting of another 6 hectares already underway. Other parts were purchased by a local négociant named Jules Jadouin (1833 – 1898), who also had about two-fifths of the vines. The remainder was still in the possession of the Legras family’s various members.
By 1881 Paul Promis had gathered together 60 hectares of land, with 22 hectares of vines planted, from which he produced 45 tonneaux (one tonneau was 900 litres, or four barrels) of wine per annum, a figure roundly beaten by Jules Jadouin who was producing 70 tonneaux per annum from his estate, which covered 70 hectares, and included 30 hectares of vines. The Legras family were by this time no longer present, and the figures suggest that Jadouin and Promis had acquired their other vines. It seemed as though the domaine was split forever, but then – perhaps as a consequence of phylloxera and the other diseases to afflict the Bordeaux vineyard at this time – Paul Promis decided to sell. The buyer was none other than his neighbour Jules Jadouin, and by the 1890s the original Angludet estate was fully reunified, Jules holding an impressive 130 hectares of land, with 55 hectares of vines.
