Chateau Tertre Roteboeuf

Château Tertre Roteboeuf is a tiny, cult estate on the limestone slopes of Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, just southeast of Saint-Émilion. Originally a modest property called Le Tertre owned by his future father‑in‑law, it was taken on in the late 1970s by François and Miloute Mitjavile, who effectively learned winemaking from scratch and renamed it Tertre Roteboeuf – roughly, “hill of the belching ox,” a nod to the steep pastureland it once was. From near‑obscurity, the domaine’s reputation soared after the mid‑1980s,…