CHATEAU DU ROCHER – SCEA BARON DE MONTFORT

Initially founded on the basis of a gallo roman villa, Château du Rocher is one of the oldest growths of Saint-Etienne-de-Lisse. Wine producing has been part of the Château ever since.
Originally named in after its noble XVth century owners of the Durocher family, it was first and foremost a summer leisure villa.
The various buildings, the château itself, the cellars, the outhouses, flanked by the dovecote on the foundation, the sign of a noble mansion, all lie on the terrace on which they were built, beside the road at the foot of the slopes, opposite the plain.
The estate, which is 16 hectares in size all in one piece, is almost entirely planted to vines.
The subsoil, ferruginous in many parts, gives the wine a powerful sève in their early years but as they age they acquire all the organic finesse and the characteristic bouquet of « Saint Émilion ».