Château Petit Faurie de Soutard: The Division
After the death of Jean Laveau in 1836 his estate was divided between a number of héritiers, and Château Soutard came to his great granddaughter Marie d’Allard (died 1873). In 1816 she had married Jérôme Barry-Berthomieux (born 1790), of the same family that owned Château Beauregard. Following this transfer of responsibility the Berthomieux-d’Allard family had control of the estate for much of the century that remained. It had a well established reputation for its wines by this time, as recorded by Joseph Guadet in Saint-Emilion, son histoire et ses monuments (Imprimerie Royale, 1841) who descried Château Soutard as one of numerous crus of St Emilion which belonged in the “première classe”. In the same vein the property was listed fairly high up the St Emilion ranking in the first ever edition of Cocks et Féret, in 1850, the authors noting the proprietor to be one Madame Barie, who was producing 60 tonneaux of wine per annum.
Despite this apparent success in 1851 the estate was divided into three; one part remained as Château Soutard, while the other two sections, sold to the highest bidder by the Berthomieux-d’Allard family, were the origins of Château Faurie de Souchard and Château Petit-Faurie de Soutard. This latter section came to the family of Marie Chaussade de Chandos (born 1762), who was the daughter of Marie Laveau (born 1730) and Jérôme Luc Chaussade de Chandos (1704 – 1769). She married one Henri Turban (died 1851), as described by Didier Bouquet in Généalogie de la Famille Chaussade en Périgord (Books on Demand, 2014).
