Château de Malherbes hosts seminars, conferences, business dinners, afterwork events and private receptions for up to 60 people indoors and up to 200 on its rooftop terrace. Both spaces are in the estate's gravity-flow cellar, built in 2021, with views over the vines. The château is a Bordeaux wine estate in Latresne, on the hillsides above the Garonne, about 15 minutes from central Bordeaux.
Seminars and company events
The event space is open all year. The indoor room and the terrace are hired together, which gives a group a meeting room and an outdoor area for breaks, lunch or an evening reception. The indoor room takes 30 people around a U-shaped table or 60 in conference style, so it suits a board meeting, a training day or a client presentation. Tours and tastings can be added to a meeting day: the estate offers cellar visits, barrel tastings of wines still aging, an aroma workshop and an optional picnic.
Weddings and receptions
The estate lists private receptions and family celebrations among the events it hosts. The terrace is used for cocktails, dinners and summer receptions, with sunsets over the vineyard. Ask the estate directly about weddings, as they are not named on its event page.
Rooms and capacities
The indoor room covers 67 square meters. It has daylight and a view over the vines and the vat room. Capacities: 50 for a seated meal, 30 in U-shape, 60 in conference style and 70 for a cocktail.
The panoramic terrace covers 177 square meters on the roof of the cellar. It is half covered, which gives shade and some protection if the weather turns. Capacities: 130 for a seated meal, 160 in conference style and 200 for a cocktail.
Catering
The event page does not name an in-house kitchen or caterer, so check meal arrangements when you ask for a quote. The estate's own wines can be served, and tastings can be built into the program.
History and setting
The estate's history goes back to 1389, when Guilhem de Malherbes, a knight returning from the Crusades, founded a property on the Latresne hillsides overlooking the Garonne. The château itself was built in the 16th century, when vines were already grown on the site. From the 17th to the 19th century, notarial records trace a series of noble owners.
In 2014, the family of the current co-owner, Julia, bought the estate and began restoring the vineyard and modernizing the cellars. The gravity cellar, designed by the firm TAAD, opened in 2021. It moves grapes and wine between levels by gravity rather than pumps, with inverted cone-shaped steel vats and new French oak barrels. The vineyard grows on a mix of clay, limestone and gravel soils. The technical director has experience of organic and biodynamic farming, and the team applies a low-intervention approach.
Getting there
Latresne is on the right bank of the Garonne, about 15 minutes by car from central Bordeaux. Bordeaux Saint-Jean is the main rail station, with direct trains from Paris, and Bordeaux-Mérignac is the nearest airport. The estate is a good base for a group that combines a meeting with a day in the Bordeaux vineyards.
