General & History

This chateau is a family owned 15th Century French castle in the village of Haux, near Bordeaux. Our unique property is set in the Dordogne and Gironde area of the Aquitaine region. We offer golf holidays, wine holidays, leisure holidays and, with our own private carp fishing lake, an excellent spot for fishing holidays. The chateau is extremely popular with tourists and natives alike, and it has even featured on a number of television programmes.

The château sleeps up to 37 people in fifteen en suite bedrooms. It has lovely salons, a grand dining room accommodating up to twenty-two people, a library, a breakfast room seating twenty-five, and fine kitchen facilities. Each room is furnished and decorated tastefully and with the comfort of guests in mind, and four of the bedrooms have terraces overlooking the local vineyards. In winter months the château is centrally heated and there are three log fires available.

The chateau is within 30 minutes of 20 excellent Golf courses, and 10 minutes from the River Garonne and River Dordogne. It is 45 minutes from the town of Arcachon and the Atlantic Ocean.

We have many quality vineyards and wineries of the Bordeaux region nearby. Together with our own leisure facilities - the golf practice area, snooker table, table tennis, and table football - as well as acres of grounds with a cave network and small river, we guarantee you will never be short of things to do!

On a hillside overlooking a valley, surrounded by forests and undulating terrain, the chateau has the advantage of being located near the city of Bordeaux and amid the famed vineyards of the region. Large enough for a celebratory group gathering where all guests can have a luxurious bedroom with en suite bath, this Roman style château, some of which dates back to the 15th century, has a fascinating and complex history.

The name of the chateau comes from a type of vegetation that appeared in the early 16th century and, according to a document dating to the 1700s, there was originally a moat surrounding the castle. With its oldest tower boasting walls 1.2 metres thick, the château was defensible during the feudal wars of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, the latter two seeing destruction of parts of the castle. The property changed hands and families many times over the centuries, occasionally seeing periods of restoration. Then in the 19th century, the Faux family became successful vignerons planting Barsac and Sauternes vines. Records indicate that their wines sold at twice the price of others in the region because of its high quality. The property was sold in 1859 to Jules Beyssac, whose heirs lived on the estate until 1956.

Two more families owned the château until the Holmes family purchased it in 2002 and spent two years renovating the château itself. They are planning to renovate the courtyard to create more en-suite guest rooms and further facilities, but today it is a fine establishment worthy of the most particular guests and is one of the most important heritage buildings of the local town of Haux.