Our story
Château de Côts is a family property of tradition. Created in 1930 by Pierre Bergon my grandfather, it is in 2012 that I joined the adventure.
Gilles my father had kept his father’s method of cultivation, preferring tillage to treatments. Indeed, the first 10 hectares of vines have always been ploughed, grassed one row out of two and cut in a traditional way. Until the 90s he ploughed on horseback the nearest plots. Organic certification in 1999 was only a given.
It covers an area of about 20 hectares today. A typical encépagement of Bordeaux with a peculiarity; my father had kept a nice quantity of Malbec and some Cabernet Sauvignon, not wanting to tear everything up to plant only Merlot.
The harvested juices are vinified in a traditional way, fermentation is done with indigenous yeasts, without the addition of oenological input. Macerations are long (between 5 and 7 weeks) in buried cement tanks.
In the continuity of our transition to organic, I decided to spend the entire vineyard in Biodynamic, it is certified by Demeter in 2020.
