The estate is first mentioned in a document from 1330, with vineyard records beginning in 1552. Before the French Revolution it belonged to the Saint-Simon family; it was confiscated and sold as national property during the Revolution, then passed through several owners over the nineteenth century, including Jean-Pierre Pescatore, a Parisian banker who rebuilt the château in 1847, and later the Cruse family. Nicolas Tari bought the estate in the early 1950s and restored it; his son Pierre continued the work, and in 1976 Pierre Tari served as one of the French judges at the Judgment of Paris tasting.

Eric Albada Jelgersma, a Dutch businessman, took over the wine business in the mid-1990s, and his family completed the purchase of the estate's remaining land in 2023. The vineyard now covers more than 80 hectares, planted mostly to Cabernet Sauvignon alongside Merlot, Cabernet Franc and a little Petit Verdot. The wine ferments in temperature-controlled vats and ages in oak barrels; the estate also makes a second wine, La Sirène de Giscours.

In our cellar, Château Giscours is represented by the 1981 vintage. For more from the Médoc, see our Margaux and Bordeaux wines collections, or browse collector wines from the cellar's older stock.