Château de Fargues: What Comte Lur Saluces Did Next

Count Alexandre de Lur Saluces is the famed French viticulturist who managed Château d'Yquem for 36 years, the crown jewel in the Lur Saluces portfolio of estates that also included Filhot, Coutet, Malle and Fargues, and the world’s most famous estate for sweet wines. His family’s reign in Sauternes stretches back over half a millennium from the marriage of Pierre de Lur and Isabeau de Monferrand at Fargues in 1472. The Saluces name came into the family a century later when Jean de Lur married Catherine-Charlotte de Saluces, heiress of the great Marquis of Piedmont in 1586.