Château Nenin: Vineyards
Château Nenin occupies a prominent corner position on the edge of Catusseau, with Château Trotanoy (often mentioned as a neighbour in old editions of Cocks et Féret) to the north, Château Plince to the west, and Château Ferrand and Château Taillefer to the south. The château, already described within the previous pages, looks out onto the road across a small plot of vines and from behind iron railings. Many accounts of the property make great play of the estate’s fine 10-hectare park filled with ancient trees, but even the briefest walk around the periphery of the estate as I have undertaken makes it clear that this park has long gone, presumably replaced with vines.
Château Nenin is unusual in Pomerol in that it is one of a mere handful of large estates; only Château de Sales, which lies in the extreme west of the appellation, is larger. It accounts for 32 hectares of the appellation, when the norm is a small fraction of that. The terroir is largely clay and sandy gravel, although as the vineyards run up to Château Trotanoy they are convincingly onto the plateau, and here they have a more profound gravelly character.
