Château Valandraud, or Château de Valandraud, is Bordeaux wine producer situated in the Saint-Émilion appellation, promoted to Premier Grand Cru Classé in the 2012 Classification of Saint-Emilion wine.^[1] The winery is located on the Right Bank of France’s Bordeaux wine region in the commune of Saint-Émilion.

The winery also produces the second wines, Virginie de Valandraud and 3 de Valandraud, and the Kosher wine Château Valandraud Kosher.^[2]

In 1989 Jean-Luc Thunevin and his wife Murielle Andraud bought a 0.6-hectare (1.5-acre) plot in Saint-Émilion near Château Pavie-Macquin. Further plots in the region were acquired over the years, in locations such as Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens and Saint-Étienne-de-Lisse, and a former garage to be used as a winery, releasing the first vintage in 1991 of 1,500 bottles priced at €13. Exemplified as a typical “microchâteau”,^[3] Thunevin is closely associated with the “garagiste” movement, and the wine is described as the pioneer “Vin de garage”.^[4][5][6] In 1995, Valandraud was given a better rating by Robert Parker than Château Pétrus,^[7] and by 1997 the Valandraud bottle price was set at €91. The 2005 vintage was set at €165.^[8]

The Thunevins have since taken on several projects, including the first “garage wine“‘ of Médoc, Marojallia,^[9] and acting as négociant distributor for several estates from Bordeaux, Languedoc-Roussillon and elsewhere, including Château Ausone, Gracia, Harlan Estate and Dominio de Pingus.