9-Bed 1860s Chateau Near Saint-Émilion Vineyards – Second Home with Guest House



Aquitaine, Gironde, St-Émilion, France, Saint-Émilion (France)
9 Bedrooms · 3 Bathrooms · 280m² Floor area
€507,999
House
No parking
9 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
280m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
On a quiet morning in the Gironde, before the tourist coaches arrive in the village and the church bells of Saint-Émilion's monolithic abbey start marking the hour, you can stand at the kitchen door of this 1860s chateau and look out across a landscape that has been producing some of the world's most celebrated wine for over a thousand years. The vineyards run almost to your garden wall. The air smells faintly of warm earth and cut grass. This is not a postcard. This is Tuesday.
Built in 1860 and extended in the decades that followed, this nine-bedroom chateau and manor house sits in more than an acre of grounds just a short drive from the celebrated village of Saint-Émilion, in the heart of one of France's most revered wine-growing appellations. At 280 square metres of interior space across the main residence and a separate guest house, there is real breathing room here — room for a large family, room for friends who stay too long and don't apologise for it, room to think about what you actually want this place to become.
The building's history shows itself in the right ways. Walk through the entrance hall and the proportions feel considered, unhurried — the way older houses do when they were built for people who planned to stay. A classic reception salon sits off the hall, the kind of room that works for a winter dinner party with candles on the table just as well as it does for lazy Sunday lunches spilling out into the garden. A separate dining room, a study, and a family kitchen that opens directly onto the grounds complete the ground floor picture. Wooden double-glazed windows throughout manage the neat trick of preserving the original character while keeping things genuinely comfortable across all four seasons.
Upstairs, the principal bedroom comes with a private bathroom — a detail that matters enormously when you've been walking the vineyards all afternoon and don't want to queue. A second en suite bedroom and further guest rooms round out the upper floor. Then at the very top of the house, a series of additional rooms and a generous attic space wait for whatever the next owner decides they should be: a studio, a games room, extra bedrooms, a cinema room. The bones are there. The permissions question is yours to explore, but the raw potential is obvious.
What makes this property genuinely unusual is the guest house arrangement. The earlier section of the building — the 1860 original, before the extension — was more recently configured as independent accommodation, with its own entrance and facilities. As a vacation home, this is a significant advantage. Host family separately from friends. Rent it out during the summer high season when Saint-Émilion draws wine lovers from Tokyo, New York, and London, and the Gironde countryside fills with cyclists tackling the routes between Pomerol and Castillon. Or, if you'd rather have the whole building for yourself, the guest house can be reintegrated into the main residence to restore a single, sprawling family home. Very few properties offer that kind of flexibility so cleanly.
Outside, several traditional outbuildings dot the grounds — a barn, a former chai (the stone wine storehouses that are as native to this corner of Aquitaine as the Merlot grape itself), a dependance, and a garage. The chai alone is worth the attention of anyone with creative ambitions: converted thoughtfully, spaces like this become wine cellars, art studios, summer dining rooms, or guest cottages with a story built right into the walls.
Saint-Émilion itself is less than ten minutes away and deserves its reputation entirely. The medieval village — classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999 — sits above its famous underground church, carved directly into the limestone, and the narrow cobbled streets are lined with négociants, cave tastings, and restaurants where the duck confit is done properly and the Bordeaux list runs to three pages. The September harvest festival, the Fête de la Fleur in June, and the spring Portes Ouvertes weekend when dozens of châteaux throw open their cellars — these are not tourist events you attend once. They're things residents look forward to every year.
The surrounding Gironde countryside offers more than wine. The Dordogne River is close enough for kayaking on a summer afternoon. Bordeaux — a proper, walkable European city with extraordinary architecture, a covered market at the Marché des Capucins that will rearrange your understanding of what cheese and charcuterie can be, and a cultural calendar anchored by FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Opéra National de Bordeaux — is under an hour by car. Better still, there's a TGV station serving the Bordeaux-Paris line, and Bordeaux-Mérignac airport handles direct routes from across Europe and beyond. Getting here from London, Amsterdam, or Madrid is genuinely easy. That matters when you own a second home.
The climate here is Atlantic-influenced Aquitaine: warm, long summers that stretch well into September, mild springs ideal for cycling the Route des Vins de Saint-Émilion, and winters that are rarely brutal. The vines are bare and the village quieter in January, but there's a particular pleasure in having the whole place more or less to yourself, sitting by the fire in the salon with a bottle of something from a producer whose vines you can see from your garden.
For the international buyer thinking about investment alongside lifestyle, the Saint-Émilion area has consistent year-round appeal that insulates property values against the volatility that can affect more seasonal markets. Rental demand — particularly in the premium segment, with visitors willing to pay serious money for the authentic Bordeaux wine country experience — is strong. The existing guest house configuration gives you a ready framework for generating rental income while you continue to use the main house yourself.
Key features at a glance:
Nine bedrooms across main residence and detached guest house
Three bathrooms including two en suite rooms
280 square metres of living space on a site of more than one acre
Built 1860, extended and updated, currently in good condition
Wooden double-glazed windows throughout
Classic entrance hall, reception salon, separate dining room and study
Ground floor kitchen with direct garden access
Spacious attic with scope for further conversion (subject to permissions)
Barn, former chai, dependance and garage in the grounds
Guest house can operate independently or be reintegrated into main home
Under 10 minutes from the UNESCO village of Saint-Émilion
Bordeaux city under an hour by car, TGV station accessible
Bordeaux-Mérignac international airport within easy reach
Rental income potential from existing guest accommodation
Priced at €507,999 — rare value for a property of this scale and location
A chateau of this size and age, sitting within reach of one of the most famous wine villages on the planet and priced the way this one is, doesn't come along on a regular basis. If you've been thinking about a second home in France — something with genuine history, real space for a family or a group of friends, and a location that gives you more than scenery — this is worth your time.
Contact Homestra today to arrange a private viewing or to request the full property details. The harvest season won't wait, and neither will this one.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 9
- Size
- 280m²
- Price per m²
- €1,814
- Garden size
- 2903m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 3
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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