3eme Cru Classe 2017

Archives from Bordeaux University record taxes paid on Calon wine in the twelfth century, when the house of Calon was a stronghold of the Lords of Lesparre. Through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it passed among the De Lur, De Marsan, De Vallier and De Gascq families.

In 1670 Jeanne de Gascq married Jacques de Ségur; their son Alexandre (1674-1716) married the heir to Latour and bought Lafite in 1715. In 1718 Nicolas-Alexandre, Marquis de Ségur, acquired the lands of Mouton, placing every future Médoc First Growth but Margaux in his hands.

He died in 1755. In 1824 the Dumoulin family, successors to the Ségurs, gave up the estate to Firmin de Lestapis, and in 1855 Calon Ségur was classified a Third Growth. Georges Gasqueton, owner of Château Capbern, acquired it in 1894 with his uncle Charles Hanappier; Georges, then Edouard, then Philippe Gasqueton ran it through the twentieth century.

After Philippe's death in 1995 his wife Denise took over with their daughter Hélène de Baritault, renovating cellars and vineyard. Denise died in September 2011, on the first day of harvest. In 2012 Suravenir, a subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, acquired Calon Ségur and Capbern; renovation began in 2013 and a new vat cellar opened on 26 September 2016.