Château Poujeaux: The Castaing Era
The name associated with Château Poujeaux for the longest period of time was Castaing, and it was after Marguerite de la Roque-Budos sold her vines that André Castaing (1776 – 1847) arrived on the scene. He made the purchase on July 18th 1806. Just four years later, on January 21st 1810, he married his cousin Lucrèce Pauline Gressier (1789 – 1875), from a family who also owned a great swathe of vines in the region. As a consequence, two names – Gressier and Castaing – were associated with a huge multifaceted vineyard.
When Wilhelm Franck documented the vignerons of the region in Traité sur les vins du Médoc (first edition, Chaumas, 1824), two years after the division of the Gressier property, he quite sensibly chose to simply record the two family’s holdings. Top of the list was the Veuve Gressier (this being Marie Pauline de Poyen), who was producing 35 to 50 tonneaux per annum. This half of the original Gressier domaine would eventually be passed to Marie’s son André Gressier and would subsequently be known as Château Gressier-Grand-Poujeaux, the name under which the wine is still sold today. For this reason these vines cease to be of any relevance to this story (although the Gressier family make continued appearances in this tale).
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