If it was a fertile century for the Languedocian landowners refocused around Béziers-Pézenas, it is the 19th century period of the “El Dorado du Vin”.

In this region, this century saw the construction of a large number of castles entrusted to the Garros family, Bordeaux architect from father to son.
The castle is the symbol of success. The château allows identification with the “Bordeaux” originator model.
It was at this time that the Domaine de Pinet was shaped from the lands of the Chapitre d'Agde.

The consecration of the Estate in 1900 will be the construction entrusted to the Garros family of Château de Pinet, Château Gaujal or Château Gaujal de Saint Bon.

Used, incidentally as a second home, the Château represents above all an image that enhances wine production.

In parallel with the construction of the Château de Pinet, with the advice of the Agronomic School of Montpellier, the operating buildings are fitted out and rebuilt with a frame in the form of a real wooden cathedral. Cruising speed will follow the good years.

These years will be partially interrupted by the Phylloxera and then by the War of 1914.

A veritable cleaver war that directs Languedoc towards larger productions, destabilizing the qualitative research work carried out previously.
That's when Jacques Gaujal, Engineer-Agronomist, eldest son, invested himself in the continuation of his father's work.
The War of 1939-1940 will still require a new adaptation. The Germans requisition the Castle and buildings of the Estate.

However, the Estate must live and find other sources of income. So to respond to fuel shortages, Jacques Gaujal, always pragmatic, created the Carbovigne Company which aims to obtain charcoal from vine shoots and allow the manufacture of gasifier used by vehicles of the time. Wine production becomes secondary.

It was only after the War that the wine estate resumed all its activity.

Our Domaine is an example of permanent adaptation.