Château La Rame (Domaine des Grands Maisons)

Domaines des Grands Maisons is the name of the company formed to market and sell the Bordeaux wines of the Armand family. The most famous of which is Château La Rame. Please also see Château La Caussade and Château des Graviers.

Cháteau La Rame was purchased by Claude Armand, the father of the current owner, with the aim of re-establishing Sainte-Croix-Du-Mont as an appellation of merit set to rival the great estates of Sauternes and Barsac, just across the river Garonne. Yves Armand's largest vineyard is 31 miles away from the southeast of Bordeaux, on the sides of a hill overhanging the Garonne, facing south. Twenty hectares of vines, sémillon and sauvignon, with an average age of 50 years, run all the way down the hill and stretch to the river banks. La Rame's second vineyard plot is comprised of six hectares south of the commune of Sainte-Croix-Du-Mont, and has an average vine age of 30 years, with cabernet and merlot also grown here in equal proportions.