Château Roquefort
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Free visit to the estate thanks to a map or interactive tour from your smartphone.
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Discover our new wine tourism offers
Enter through the Château Roquefort gate and be welcomed by a tree-lined lane nestled amid the vines. In the distance are hills as far as the eye can see, and lavish nature abounds, exuding a scent of soil and grapes.
Meet our team, learn about our wines, then taste and savour them: our team has concocted a diverse line-up of offers for everyone who enjoys nature, terroir and heritage. The different options are available in French or English by reservation, so you can partake in the art of living of our lovely Entre-deux-Mers region.
In 2019, Château Roquefort received a Best of Wine Tourism Architecture et Paysage award and is certified with the Vignobles et Découvertes and Vignoble et Chais en Bordelais labels.
Free visit to the estate thanks to a map or interactive tour from your smartphone.
Free
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Free visit to the estate thanks to a map or interactive tour from your smartphone.
Tasting of 3 wines
1h30
6€/pers.
or
free from 25€ of purchase
Maximum 20pers.
On reservation
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Outdoor picnic or lunch served in the Orangery
Free access visit to the estate thanks to a map or interactive tour from your smartphone
Tasting of 3 wines
2h
Price 42€ per person (from 4 to 10 people)
Price 39€ per person (from 11 to 20 people)
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Create a meal using seasonal produce, in the Château’s Orangery kitchen, instructed by our chef Olivier. Following the cooking class, the guests will share the dishes they’ve created with food-wine pairings.
Guided visit of the estate
Cooking class
Lunch with the chef
From 170€/pers.
Until 12pers.
On reservation
Realization of a meal based on truffles in the kitchen of the “Orangerie”, with our chef Olivier.
Guided tour of the site and the truffle oaks
Cooking class
Food and wine pairings
Lunch with the chef
Price of 290€ per person
Up to 12 people
On reservation
We’ll tickle your taste buds with our Château Roquefort white wine while we introduce you to the château, its wines and its outstanding historical heritage. Then you’ll get the chance to compare two caviars – a Baerii and an Osciètre accompanied by two of our best white wine: Rives & Roquefortissime.
Tasting of 3 white wines and 2 caviars Sturia
70€/pers.
Up to 10 people
On reservation
Oak forests, hills as far as the eye can see, meadows where white clover and bellflower bloom in summer…It’s in the middle of this generous nature, part of which is labeled Natura 2000, that we offer you our guest room: “La maison de Léo”. This suite includes a large living room, a bedroom and a bathroom.
200€
For 2pers.
On reservation
The Roquefort site is well-known among archaeologists with a passion for prehistoric times, and has in fact been inhabited since the 5th millennium BC. The first communities here lived off agriculture and animal husbandry and have left many traces behind: pottery and items from daily life which are now exhibited at the Museum of Aquitaine in Bordeaux, and first and foremost the remarkably well-preserved ‘covered walkway’ mass burial site. Like all dolmens, the side walls are demarcated by orthostates (22 blocks). 14 metres long, the alley was once covered with various horizontal beams, three of which are still in place. The first excavations of the prehistoric Roquefort site began in 1865 when artist and archaeologist Léo Drouyn discovered the Roquefort estate and featured it in some magnificent drawings.
According to the inscription above the lintel door, the Roquefort dovecote dates from 1715. During that period, only lords were permitted to keep pigeons, whose droppings were found to be an excellent fertilizer for crops. The area inside the dovecote was divided up into nesting boxes known as pigeon holes, each able to host a pigeon pair. The Roquefort dovecote once contained more than 336 wicker pigeon holes, 32 of which have been restored by the Compagnons du Devoir. Depending on the size of their crop land, each estate owner was entitled to own a dovecote and a particular number of pigeon holes. These dovecotes had to obey strict rules (both to deter predators and to prevent the pigeons from raiding the fields during sowing time) including an airtight door, a shutter to keep the pigeons in, a projecting flight platform and more. The Roquefort dovecote will reveal to you its secrets!
Léo Drouyn, the Gironde artist and archaeologist who was born in Izon on July 12th 1816 and died in Bordeaux on August 4th 1896, produced more than 1500 etchings and thousands of drawings during his life. Passionate about the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, he gave us a unique portrayal of the Roquefort estate’s appearance in the 19th century and of numerous Aquitaine landscapes before the development of photography. In 1860 he said: ‘We must hurry, as ruins accumulate and time destroys, whilst people consciously help time…’ He stayed at Roquefort and drew the estate from every angle including the chateau alley, the woods, the fortified house, the Neolithic covered walkway to name but a few. This hoard of heritage is now celebrated every summer by Editions de l’Entre-Deux-Mers and the Targon Tourist Office.
