A brief history
The vineyard of Château La Croix de Gay is currently being developed by the Raynaud-Lebreton family, descendant of a line of Pomerolais winegrowers dating back to 1772 but settled in the town since at least 1477. The ancestors of the Raynaud-Lebreton family, Mathelin and Michel Barraud indeed received, on this date from the Order of the Hospitallers of Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem, for exploitation, land in the center of the Pomerol plateau. This tenement of the barrauderie corresponded to the lands of the current Pétrus, the Evangile, the Conseillante, Gazin, Petit Village and Vieux Château Certan 2 castles . While the XVIII th century advent brand of quality vineyards in Libourne in 1772 Pomerol church records indicate activity winemaker Jean Brugnet ancestor in the sixth degree of the current owners of Château La Croix de Gay. This therefore probably establishes the Raynaud-Lebreton family as one of the oldest to directly highlight the exceptional viticultural aptitude of the Pomerol terroir. During the XIX th and XX th century operation was transmitted by women.
From generation to generation their husbands passed on a family winegrowing know-how and a knowledge of the Pomerol terroirs, a guarantee of the regularity and quality of the wines of the property.
Thus followed one another:
Barthélemy Larroucaud (mayor of Pomerol from 1871 to 1874 then from 1876 to 1883),
Jean Angle (founding member of the wine-growing union of Pomerol, cellar master of Gazin (M Quenedey), Rouget (M Cabanes), Certan (Demoiselles de May) and for Abbot Antoine Faure, parish priest of Pomerol from 1861 to 1905,
