Château Beaumont: Vineyards
Château Beaumont sits close to Cussac-Fort-Médoc, a very short distance from the D2 as it snakes its way up the Médoc. It is located to the west of this settlement, the château sitting at the centre of a huge expanse of vineyard. Its nearest neighbour of any renown is surely Château du Retout, the source of one of Bordeaux’s greatest white wines, located in Vieux-Cussac a short distance to the southeast.
The vineyard is, as the above paragraph suggests, a large one. There are 113 hectares of vines all told (on an estate of 150 hectares), gathered together in a single parcel around the château. The soils are well drained, deep and gravelly, in other words typical of the Médoc peninsula. The vineyard is dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon which accounts for 53% of the surface area, a figure which has slipped by about 7% during the past couple of decades. Correspondingly plantings of Merlot are up by about the same figure, and currently stand at around 42%. The remaining 5% is all Petit Verdot, and although my records suggests there was once also a parcel of Cabernet Franc planted here, it seems to have been pulled up.
