
Château La Louvière is a Bordeaux wine estate in the Pessac-Léognan appellation that extends over 46 hectares of deep gravel. The estate produces a great red and white wine and a second wine, L de La Louvière, also in red and white. In some vintages offering perfect conditions for the development of botrytis, he produces a sweet wine, Les Lions de La Louvière (last vintages produced: 1989, 1996, 2003 and 2010).
We find traces of the name "La Lobeyra" (La Louvière) from the beginning of the 14th century in Aquitaine, then English: it designated the place of the wolves that abundantly populated the forests of Pessac at that time. Its owner, Guilhem de La Louvière, a tax collector, already had a small vineyard there. The vineyard as we know it today was created in the 15th and especially in the 16th century by the Guilloche family. Although she was a Protestant, she was persecuted many times, until the assassination of Jehan de Guilloche in 1572.
La Louvière then passed into the hands of the Carthusian Fathers for almost two centuries, until 1789. The wines became very famous and the monks developed trade with England. In the 19th century, a Bordeaux merchant, Jean-Baptiste Mareilhac, acquired it: he developed exports and had the current castle built by a renowned Parisian architect, François Lhôte. Before the First World War, the estate was bought by Alfred Bertrand-Taquet, who was elected mayor of Léognan in 1919.
The modern era began in 1965 when André Lurton, a winegrower from Grézillac, bought the property. He developed and modernised the vineyard and the cellar and brought the wines of Château La Louvière to the top of the appellation.
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