Château Rabaud-Promis is a Bordeaux wine producer in the Sauternes

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. Its sweet white wine ranked as Premier Cru Classé (French, “First Growth”) in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. It is located in the commune of

Bommes Bommes (; oc, Bòmas) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Bommes is located in the Sauternes wine appellation of Bordeaux. Population See also *Communes of the Gironde department The foll ...

in the region of

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. It was once joined with Château Sigalas-Rabaud in the estate named Château Rabaud.

History

The history of the Rabaud estate goes back to 1660, when it came into the ownership of the de Cazeau family, who were magistrates of the parliament of Bordeaux.Château Sigalas-Rabaud: Dossier de presse
, accessed 2012-04-09 The Wine Doctor: Château Sigalas-Rabaud
accessed 2012-04-09 The last de Cazeau owner, who was also mayor of Bommes, sold Rabaud in 1819 to Gabriel Deyme, who was the owner at the time of the 1855 classification. In 1863, Henri Drouilhet de Sigalas bought Rabaud and added his name to that of the property, creating Rabaud-Sigalas. He also purchased Château Pexoto, a Sauternes property classified as a deuxième cru in 1855, and absorbed it into Rabaud-Sigalas. In 1903, Henri's only son Pierre-Gaston de Sigalas sold the largest part of the property to Adrien Promis, creating Château Rabaud-Promis. In 1930, after a lease on the Château Sigalas-Rabaud vineyards was not renewed, the Rabaud estate was run as one with Fernand Ginestet as tenant of both Rabaud-Promis and Sigalas-Rabaud. During the 1930s and 1940s, the labels of the wine showed both names. In 1950, the Ginestet family wanted to get rid of their Rabaud holdings in order to buy

Château Margaux Château Margaux (), archaically La Mothe de Margaux, is a wine estate of Bordeaux wine, and was one of four wines to achieve ''Premier cru'' (first growth) status in the Bordeaux Classification of 1855. The estate's best wines are very expens ...

. The descendants of the Sigalas family descendants were unwilling to own all of Rabaud, and the holdings were sold to the Dejean family, which put an end to the joint running of Rabaud, and since then the two Rabaud estates have been run separately.

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