Pierre de Rauzan, also known as Pierre de Mesures de Rauzan, was a Bordeaux wine merchant. He served as estate manager of Château Latour. In the 1690s he began buying land in the Médoc near the village of Pauillac.
Legacy
Upon the marriage of his daughter Thérèse to Jacques François de Pichon, Seigneur de Longueville, Rauzan passed on the estate to them which became the Pichon Longueville estate that would later split to the Second growth estates of Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande and Château Pichon Longueville Baron. To his three sons, he bequeathed of vineyards around Château Margaux that would later become the second growths of Château Rauzan-Ségla and Château Rauzan-Gassies, as well as the classified growths Château Desmirail and Château Marquis de Terme.
See also
Bordeaux wine regions
History of Bordeaux wine
References
External links
Château Rauzan-Ségla Profile
Château Pichon Longueville Baron Website
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Website
French winemakers
Wine merchants
Businesspeople from Bordeaux
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
17th-century French businesspeople
18th-century French businesspeople
