Château Carbonnieux is one of the oldest in Bordeaux. We have to go back to 1234 to find traces of Ramon Carbonnieux who would have left his name to this domain founded in the 13th century by the Benedictines of the Abbey of Sainte-Croix.
After having belonged from 1519 to 1730 to the bourgeois family of Ferron, it again became the property of the Benedictine monks until the Revolution when it was ceded to the Bouchereau family who settled there for nearly a century. Then it passed into the hands of different families before Marc Perrin bought it in 1956 after its first classification as Grand Cru de Graves in 1953, confirmed in 1959 during the official classification of Grands Crus de Graves: Château Carbonnieux was then distinguished at the both for its red wines and its white wines, they are 6 Crus Classés de Graves only within the Pessac-Léognan Appellation to be in this case.
Since then, by small touches, this vast property of 170 hectares of land, including 92 hectares of vines, has continued to evolve with increasing quality year after year. It is the grandsons, Eric and Philibert Perrin, who today run the Carbonnieux estate, whose castle turrets constitute the highest point in the town of Léognan.
The vineyard occupies two vast contiguous plots on a soil of Garonne gravel, naturally drained, resting on a tertiary clay-limestone base. The vineyard is operated in sustainable agriculture with respect for biodiversity, which strengthens its natural defenses and prohibits the use of weedkillers and insecticides.