Château Roquefort
At the Terroirs en Scène event organized by the Derenoncourt Vignerons Consultants team on March 23, 2026, the Château Roquefort team presented the estate’s ambitions and reflected on ten years of investments dedicated to the future.
For more than 6,000 years, people have lived and worked on this limestone plateau. Transmission lies at the heart of the Bellanger family’s project, with the ambition of making it a model estate rooted in 21st-century values. Château Roquefort produces wines with a strong sense of identity—precise, understated wines that reflect both the terroir and the lifestyle of Entre-deux-Mers.
Over the past ten years, the estate has undertaken a major investment program aimed at restructuring the vineyard and modernizing the winery and all buildings, guided by the estate’s CSR commitments. Collaboration with Julien Lavenue and Hannah Fiegenshuh of Derenoncourt Vignerons Consultants has further strengthened the goal of showcasing the estate’s great limestone terroirs. A commitment to quality combined with environmental respect drives this partnership, with the objective of producing distinctive wines that express the limestone memory of Entre-deux-Mers.
The white vineyard parcels have been farmed organically since 2020, following a complete restructuring. Red vineyard parcels are also being restructured, with a significant shift in grape varieties, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, and Cabernet Franc. Additional varieties have been planted to diversify plantings and test adaptation to climate change (Castets, Arinarnoa, Fer Servadou). For each plot, soil pits are used to determine the best rootstock–vine combination (massal or clonal selection depending on the case). A major investment program will be carried out at the end of the year in the winery to enable highly plot-specific vinification.
Under the leadership of Stéphane Soubanere, Technical Director of Château Roquefort, and Hannah Fiegenshuh, consulting oenologist at Derenoncourt, the latest vintages reflect this new momentum.
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