Vineyard in the foreground with a modern building featuring red shutters in the background under clear sky, Château Couhins wine estate in Bordeaux — © Château Couhins - Vineyard and Main Building

Wine aging cellar at Château Couhins in Bordeaux featuring wooden barrels arranged on the floor and glass carboys suspended from the ceiling for wine maturation. — © Aging cellar - Château Couhins, Bordeaux

Bottle of Château Couhins 2022 white wine with a filled glass and wine corks on a white plate — © Château Couhins 2022 - Bordeaux White Wine

Pink and purple cosmos flowers covered with dew drops at sunrise, with blurred vineyards in the background near Château Couhins in Bordeaux. — © Morning Dew on Cosmos at Château Couhins

Close-up of a saffron crocus flower with purple petals and yellow-red stamens against a dark background — © Saffron Crocus Bloom at Château Couhins, Bordeaux

Château Couhins Grand Cru Classé sign in the Bordeaux vineyards surrounded by wildflowers — © Château Couhins - A Grand Cru Classé Estate

View of Château Couhins vineyards in Bordeaux with a modern building featuring black shutters in the background, under a cloudy sky. — © Château Couhins - Bordeaux Vineyards

Wine cellar at Château Couhins in Bordeaux featuring rows of wooden oak barrels arranged horizontally beneath a textured brick ceiling with warm lighting. — © Barrel Storage at Château Couhins

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Château Couhins

Best Of Wine Tourism, Vigneron Indépendant, Vignobles et découvertes

Château Couhins is located at Villenave d’Ornon very near to Bordeaux. It has been ranked in 1959 and was for a long time the ownership of a wine merchant family. Today the estate is owned by the INRA “Institut National de Recherche Agronomique” which has saved it from disappearing in 1968. Château Couhins takes advantage of the most advanced studies in terms of sustainable wine growing process and has become a reference in the field of Environmental protection.

Thereby the Couhins winery is the showcase of this national institute which studies consist in implementing every wine making and growing innovations to produce high quality wines with a low environmental impact.

Couhins white wines are famous for their delicate smell of spring flowers, its scope, its vivacity and persistence in mouth which is due to the role of the Sauvignon grape variety.

The red wine is made from a hard stoned soil, symbol of its appellation. Tannins are soft and the aromas are elegant with notes of raspberry and cedar. Plus, the smell has a beautiful delicacy enhanced by complex aromas. So this wine embodies perfectly the elegance of all the great wines from Pessac-Léognan.

After having been selected as a "Vignobles et Chais en Bordelais" by the Gironde tourism office in August 2014, Château Couhins has just won the Best Of d’Or 2015 and 2025 in “Valorisation Oenotouristique des Pratiques environnementales" and "Substainable wine tourisme".