In the 2000s, Émile Castéja passed on the direction of the Château Batailley to his son Philippe Castéja. Flagship of the Castéja family and the Borie-Manoux wine merchant, the Château Batailley is managed with the greatest attention. Philippe Castéja is a business manager, a great salesman but also a man of the vineyard who constantly improves the quality of his wines with the help of his son, Frédéric Castéja, and his team at the Château.
In the group, Philippe Castéja formed two teams in the field: one for the right bank and one for the left bank, the two banks being different in many ways.
The team of the Château Batailley is the same as that of the Château Lynch-Moussas: it is made up of around twenty staff. Didier Chadourne has been technical manager since 2013 and manages the whole of the 180 hectares of the family’s vineyards in the Médoc, as well as forests. In 2022, Olivier Gourdin joined the team. Olivier Gourdin manages the cultivation of the vineyard. Since March 2023, Hugues Mathieu, cellarmaster, joined also the team. He looks after the whole of the vinification process.
The Château calls on the services of consultant œnologists for the different stages of the Château’s wine production, from the pruning of the vines to the blending of the wines.
Valérie Lavigne, a doctor in œnology, and also a lecturer and researcher at Bordeaux University’s Faculty of Œnology and a teacher at the CIVB, has consulted at Château Lynch-Moussas and at other estates in the group for around fifteen years.
Axel Marchal, a doctor in œnology since 2010 and a senior lecturer at the Institut des Sciences et de la Vigne since 2013, has followed on from Denis Dubourdieu, and has consulted for the group’s wine estates since 2016.
