Chateau Lafon-Rochet

I blogged about the second wine of this estate last month. One of the estates belonging to the Tesseron family who made their name producing Cognac (another estate of theirs is Ch Pontet-Canet), the estate traces its history back to the 17th century when the name of Lafon was added to the old Domaine de Rochet when Etienne Lafon married into the owners of the estate in 1650. The estate was classified as a 4th growth in 1855. The Tesseron family bought the estate in 1960 and embarked on a programme of rebuilding and other improvements. It makes around 12,000 cases of the grand vin and also 8000 cases of a second wine, the latter from younger vines and undergoing shorter oak aging, for earlier drinking.