Château La Conseillante
“The year 1871, when the estate was acquired by the Nicolas family, marked a turning-point in the history of La Conseillante. The brothers Louis Nicolas and Nicolas Nicolas set up their own wine merchant house Nicolas Frères and became the owners of La Conseillante. After they died a few years later, Louis Nicolas, Louis’s eldest son, took over the management of the estate.
The name “La Conseillante” can be traced back 300 years, to when the influential Libourne merchant Catherine Conseillan purchased the estate and gave it the feminine version of her surname: La Conseillante. Nicknamed the “Iron Lady”, she undertook a programme of renovation at the estate and extended the surface area of the vineyard, taking the total to 12 hectares (nearly 30 acres). Five generations later, the vineyard’s layout, with its mosaic of plots, remains unchanged from that time.”
