Château Puy Servain

Château Puy Servain is built on a ridge, and it behaves like one: high, exposed, and always moving air through the vines. The name itself comes from that geography—“Puy” for summit, “Servain” for a tight, wind-driven place—an etymology that matches the site’s character.

The story becomes concrete in 1943, when Daniel Hecquet’s grandparents purchased a property called Cantalouette on the Montravel hillsides, near an old family dwelling known as Château de Ponchapt.
The land carries older echoes too: local records cited on the estate’s own history page tie “Puy Servain” to the former Seigneurie de Ponchac, with mention of an “aveu et dénombrement” from 1764 connected to the Marquis de Ségur.

From that foundation, the cellar becomes a place where tradition and precision meet. Daniel Hecquet—trained through Bordeaux’s oenology track and shaped by a formative stage at Château d’Yquem—returns to focus on elevating the estate’s best parcels and wines.

Location

The estate is based at Calabre, 33220 Port-Sainte-Foy-et-Ponchapt, right where Montravel’s sunny slopes begin to lift and tighten into the region’s higher points.
Across their Montravel sites, the soils are described as argilo-calcaire (clay-limestone), heterogeneous and heavily reworked, with zones that turn very limestone-rich at the hilltops—exactly the kind of structure that rewards careful farming and disciplined picking.

Winemaking & Philosophy

The estate’s environmental approach reads like a set of practical habits repeated year after year: soil fertilization with organic inputs, a reasoned (observational) plant-protection strategy, a reworked water chain to reduce consumption, and wastewater treated through a lagoon + reed-bed filtration before returning to streams.

For sweet wines, the cadence slows even further. In Haut-Montravel, grapes are picked by hand in multiple passes (2–4), relying on Botrytis concentration for natural sugar richness, with chaptalization prohibited—a style built on patience rather than correction.

Across the portfolio, that same hilltop identity flows through the labels your catalog lists—Montravel reds and dry whites, Haut-Montravel liquoreux, and the broader family of wines under names like Château Calabre—all anchored to a place that insists on wind, elevation, and limestone.

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