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The honey-coloured stone of Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey, fourteenth-century walls rising above its Sauternes vineyard.

Sauternes · Aquitaine

Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey

A walled fourteenth-century château in the heart of Sauternes — Premier Cru vineyard, two Michelin stars under Jérôme Schilling, and the maison Lalique at every turn. A Relais &…

The verdict

Three trades — wine, table and crystal — held inside one walled château in the heart of Sauternes. Few addresses in the appellation hold so much of it under a single roof.

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The particulars

Style
Fourteenth-century château, Premier Cru estate
Rooms
Thirteen rooms and suites, dressed in Lalique crystal
Table
Restaurant Lalique, two Michelin stars
Chef
Jérôme Schilling, Meilleur Ouvrier de France
Wine
Sauternes Premier Cru, classed in 1855
Best for
A weekend inside the appellation
Season
Spring through harvest, September–October most fragrant

The drive south from Bordeaux narrows through villages, then opens to the slope of the Sauternes appellation. Lafaurie-Peyraguey sits at its centre — a fourteenth-century château in walled ground, classed Premier Cru in 1855, held now by Silvio Denz of the maison Lalique.

The vineyard surrounds the house. The grapes are picked in passes, as the noble rot moves through the rows: the slow, ancient method that gives Sauternes its honey. The estate's bottles fill the cellar and pour as a sequence at the table — the wine and the meal kept in the same hand.

Restaurant Lalique carries two stars under Jérôme Schilling, named Meilleur Ouvrier de France in 2023. The dining room is set in crystal — chandeliers, glasses, table pieces — all from the maison whose name now sits over the door. The cooking is precise, restrained, and answered by the wine without ceremony.

Thirteen rooms, a library, a bar, a terrace open to the vineyard. Stay a weekend and the appellation arrives course by course — picked, poured, and lit from the inside by the crystal that holds it.

Signature moments

The pale stone tower of Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey at midday, vineyard rows running to the foot of its walls.

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The château and its vineyard

The walls are fourteenth-century, the appellation nineteenth. The slope of the vineyard begins where the courtyard ends, runs down to a treeline of oak, and rises again to Yquem on the next ridge.

A signature plate at Restaurant Lalique — Brouillard du Ciron, yuzu and caviar, photographed by Michael Boudot.

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Restaurant Lalique, the table

Two stars under Jérôme Schilling, MOF 2023. The room is set in Lalique — chandeliers, glasses, cutlery rests — and the wine list is the estate itself, course-matched and poured by the cellar's own hands.

The barrel cellar at Lafaurie-Peyraguey, vaulted stone and rows of casks at low light.

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The cave, beneath the courtyard

A generation of vintages, kept under stone. The estate pours first; the rest of the appellation pours alongside it. The descent is short, the climb back up takes longer.

Inside the house

The dining room of Restaurant Lalique, white linen and Lalique crystal under a panelled ceiling.
A vertical detail of the property, light falling through Lalique crystal onto a set table.
A suite at the château, French windows open to the vineyard, bedlinen pale against panelled walls.
The library and bar, tall shelves of bound volumes, low lamps and a fire laid by armchairs.

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