Château Palmer

[3][4][5] By 1814, the widow of the final Gascq heir, Madame Marie Bumet de Ferrière, sold the property for fr 100,000 to an Englishman, Major General Charles Palmer.

Having retired from military life, Palmer invested in the property over the following years, acquiring additional land and facilities.

[3][5] In the early 1840s, Palmer had economic difficulties which would later affect the estate's position in the 1855 Classification, and was forced to sell the property to madame Françoise-Marie Bergerac in 1843 for fr 410,000, at a substantial loss.

The Péreires greatly improved the estate but faced a difficult period of oidium, and by 1858 the entire vineyard had to be replanted.

[5] The Société Civile Péreire was formed in 1889 and remained the proprietor until the poor economy following World War I and the Great Depression.