Château de Castelneau hosts seminars, team building, working meetings, cultural events, weddings and family celebrations in three rooms, from 55 guests in the Tonnellerie to 250 seated and 300 standing in the Grand Chai. It stands at 8 Route du Breuil in Saint-Léon, in the Entre-deux-Mers, about 20 km from Bordeaux and halfway to Saint-Émilion.
Seminars and company events
Company events are sold by the half day, the day, the evening or the day and evening. The Grand Chai is the main meeting room. Its hire includes internet access, two projectors with screens and reversible air conditioning, and the room can be split into two parts. The Orangerie comes with a portable screen and suits a smaller group. The Tonnellerie has a fully equipped kitchen and a fireplace. Tables and chairs can be hired for up to 60 people. Outdoor areas are open to all bookings, and marquees, braziers and parasols can be rented. Guided visits and tastings of the estate's wines are also offered.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are sold as a weekend: the estate is privatized from Friday noon to Sunday 6 p.m., and rooms are not hired without accommodation. The base package includes the Grand Chai with its caterer's office, the park and an old cellar for storage, three guest rooms in the château and the Mansion gîte. A larger package adds the Orangerie, a fourth guest room and the Petit Seignouret gîte. Pool access, a 16 m² marquee, braziers and outdoor lamps are included. The hire is linked to buying the château's own wine, with a minimum of 60 bottles. A reception tent can be set up in the garden.
Rooms and capacities
The Grand Chai covers 275 m², with an adjoining 50 m² caterer's office and five toilets. For weddings it seats 250 and takes 300 for a cocktail; the seminar page gives up to 270. The Orangerie has 80 m² indoors, a 180 m² terrace and a garden, with a large bay window over the vines; it seats 65 to 70 and takes about 100 standing. The Tonnellerie, opening onto the inner courtyard, has 60 m² and a 20 m² terrace for up to 55 guests. For weddings the rooms come without furniture.
Accommodation
The château has four guest rooms with private bathrooms: the Suite de l'Amiral at the top of a tower (60 m²), the Chambre de l'Évêque with four-meter ceilings (37 m²), the Chambre de l'Échauguette in another tower (25 m²) and La Douceur d'Elvire (20 m²). Two gîtes add more beds: La Mansion, in an outbuilding, has five bedrooms for 10 to 11 people, and Le Petit Seignouret has three bedrooms for 8.
Catering
The pages reviewed do not describe an in-house catering service, so plan on an outside caterer. The Grand Chai has a professional caterer's office of 50 m² next to the room, and the Tonnellerie has a fully equipped kitchen for smaller groups.
History and setting
A feudal mound stood nearby from about the 11th century. The château was built in the 14th century as a square enclosure with four towers, and a residence was added inside its walls in the late 16th century. An earthquake damaged it in 1759 and it burned in 1792. The Seignouret family, ancestors of the present owners, bought the southern part and then, in 1888, the northern part. Loïc and Diane de Roquefeuil took over in 1988. The estate covers 100 hectares of vines, cereals and woods.
Getting there
The château is about 20 km from Bordeaux, between Bordeaux and Saint-Émilion.
