Since its birth in 1676, this beautiful wine château built to plans by Jules-Hardouin Mansart and André Le Nôtre - whose main door was sculpted with a Bacchus, God of Wine - has remained a family home. The descendants of the founder, Jean-François de La Chaize d'Aix, have looked after the estate for almost three hundred and fifty years.
In ... 2017, they passed it on to another family, that of Christophe Gruy. Determined to enhance this remarkable vineyard with the greatest respect for nature, he and Boris Gruy - his nephew and the estate's Director of Operations - are developing a bold ecological approach: conversion to organic viticulture, then to biodynamic viticulture, recovery of each by-product of the wine-making activity in a dynamic of "0 waste", use of machinery, vehicles and equipment running only on electric energy with the objective of "0 CO2 emissions", and a parcel-by-parcel approach enable the wines of Château de La Chaize to fully express the character and uniqueness of their terroir.
Covering 330 hectares, of which 285 hectares are in one piece, the vineyard has a production potential of 140 hectares, in the Brouilly, Côte de Brouilly and Fleurie appellations. Since 2017, Château de La Chaize has been developing a range of cuvées, all of which are made by plot-based vinification. see more