HENRY D'ENGARRAN Made financial and development advisor for the Languedoc, he bought a property from the powerful lords of Saint Georges, with a fortified castle, grounds, vineyards and a winery. He continued the winemaking business of the estate and left it his name. JEAN VASSAL After making his fortune in the salt trade, he became financial and development advisor for the Languedoc and owner of Engarran through the dowry of his wife Suzanne Loys de Marigny. Jean Vassal designed the chateau as it is now in the 18th century and had it built on the foundations of the original mediaeval building. He also designed the grounds, adorned them with statuary and set up the monumental railings. He imprinted the viticultural vocation of the estate on the façade in the shape of sculpted vines. QUETTON SAINT GEORGES A brilliant and impassioned firebrand, so devoted to Engarran he had himself buried there, he spent his life between the virgin lands of Ontario and the worldliness of Montpellier. HENRI MARES This ingenious discoverer of the action of sulphur on powdery mildew of the vine was a great wine producer who perpetuated the viticultural tradition of Engarran. FLORIAN ET ADELYS BERTRAND, forebears of the Grill family Turn-of-the-century winemakers and distillers, father and son worked together to build up the family fortune. They were the first to sell barrels of Château de l'Engarran to Parisians. The daughter Marguerite Bertrand-Grill held the estate together during the wars and bequeathed it intact to her son Alain Grill. It was his wife, Francine, with her foresight into the future of Languedoc wines, who is the source of the great history of Engarran. Her daughters Diane Losfelt-Grill and Constance Rérolle-Grill now carry on the ancestral tradition of winemaking at Engarran.            © Château de l'Engarran 2003