Château Bertinerie can host study days, product presentations, wine workshops, cocktails and gala dinners for up to 200 people, and weddings for up to 165 seated guests. Events take place in a 230-square-meter reception hall that looks out over the vineyard. The estate is in Cubnezais, in the Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux appellation, about 30 minutes north of Bordeaux.
Seminars and company events
The estate rents its reception hall to companies for study days, cocktails, product launches and promotional presentations. An in-house events team helps plan each day. Activities on offer include wine tasting workshops and lighter formats such as a theater workshop.
For a plenary session, the estate provides a 12-square-meter stage, wireless and wired microphones and Philippe Starck armchairs for a theater layout. Round tables are available for a gala dinner. For car launches or vehicle displays, a paved parking area of 1,000 square meters sits next to the buildings. The estate also has a dedicated page for coach operators, a sign that it is used to receiving groups arriving by bus.
Weddings and receptions
For a wedding, the hall seats up to 165 guests with a dance floor. Round and rectangular tables and an oval head table are provided; the wine-red Starck chairs cost extra. A secular ceremony can take place outdoors under the trees, among red rose bushes, or in the barrel cellar.
The drinks reception is usually held on a 130-square-meter wooden terrace facing the vines, which takes 130 guests. Larger groups can use the paved main courtyard or the vat room. A bus or shuttle can take guests back to their hotel after the party.
Rooms and capacities
The reception hall covers 230 square meters with a panoramic view of the vineyard. It is air-conditioned and has a sound system of 12 speakers, and the ceiling and walls were treated by an acoustic engineer to absorb noise. Capacity is up to 200 people for a company event and 165 seated for a wedding dinner with dance floor.
The outdoor wooden terrace of 130 square meters takes 130 people for a drinks reception. The barrel cellar, the vat room and the main courtyard are also used at different moments of an event, with no capacities published.
Accommodation
The estate has one apartment for four people on site. For larger groups, the team suggests accommodation in the surrounding area.
Catering
The official site does not say whether catering is in-house or provided by an outside caterer. Organizers should ask the events team which caterers work in the hall. The estate's own wines can be served throughout the event.
History and setting
Bertinerie has been passed down within the same family for almost two centuries. Daniel Bantegnies took over the vineyard in 1961 and now runs it with his two sons, Eric and Frantz. The estate covers about 80 hectares and makes red, dry white and rosé wines under three names: Château Bertinerie, Château Haut Bertinerie and Château Manon des Brumes. The family trains its vines on a lyre system, uses selected clones and integrated pest management, and harvests by hand. A large share of the wine is exported, and the rest is sold to private buyers, restaurants and wine shops in France.
Getting there
Cubnezais lies about 30 minutes north of Bordeaux by road, in the Blaye area on the right bank of the Gironde. The estate has a large parking area on site.
