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Le château en bref
The Château de l'Engarran, an eighteenth-century Montpellier folly listed as a monument historique, stands on the route de Juvignac in Lavérune, in the Hérault department. The estate, whose foundations were laid in 1632 by Henri d'Engarran around a farmhouse (métairie), saw its present château built between 1722 and 1730 by Jean Vassal and his wife, who also laid out the formal French garden. The vineyard was developed by successive owners, including Laurent Quetton Saint-Georges, who exported its wine as far as Canada as early as 1816, and Henri Marès, who experimented with biological treatments from 1856. Owned by the Bertrand family since 1924, the estate is currently run by three generations of women from the same family, and Florian Grill, a businessman and rugby union executive, is one of its co-owners. It produces red, white and rosé wines under the Coteaux du Languedoc appellation and offers visits and private hire.