Château Rollat is owned by Bowin Lindgren, who is also the winemaker. Lindgren was a with a large pharmaceutical industry executive before retiring with the goal of making wine. He named the estate after his great grandfather, a sommelier and wine educator who left France for a new life in New York in the early 20th century. Lindgren hired a consulting winemaker, Christian LeSommer, a French winemaker who has worked with Château d’Yquem and Château Latour, to guide the early vintages. Rollat’s first vintages were in 2005. Stephen Tanzer of The International Wine Cellar called the estate an “exciting emerging producer” and noted that one of the Bordeaux blends had “the polished texture of a Medoc wine…”