Château Grand Barrail Lamarzelle Figeac: Émile Nérini
It was not long before the next legal challenge came along, in 1923, again relating to the name of the estate. By this time René Bouchart was running the property with the help of a son-in-law, Émile Nérini (1862 – 1967), who led a double life as proprietor on one hand, as composer and pianist on the other. This time the court decided that, in reference to previously absorbed properties, the estate should be distinguished from others in the region by the addition of Grand Barrail to its name, and thus Château Grand Barrail Lamarzelle Figeac was born.
René Bouchart tumbled off his mortal coil just one year later, and thus the running of Château Grand Barrail Lamarzelle Figeac and its 20 hectares of vines fell entirely to Émile Nérini. He remained in this role until 1935, after which the property came into the possession of the Société Immobilière Viticole des Grands Vins de France, and from this company it was passed to Maurice Alloo, a stockbroker from Belgium. It was during his time here that the estate was ranked as grand cru classé in the first classification of St Emilion in 1955 (although this status was lost in subsequent revisions of this classification). Seemingly unimpressed despite this success, Alloo sold the property the same year, the buyer one Georges Clément, who sold it one year later to Edmond Carrère, who hailed from Monbazillac.
