STORIE DI VINI E VITICOLTORI
As with almost all the more famous Château de Bordeaux, even for Pontet-Canet the story begins back in time, in the middle of the 18th century, when a French high magistrate, Jean-François de Pontet, buys some plots north of the village of Pauillac. To this original nucleus, in 1757, is added an entire property in the area of Canet, from whose name, associated with that of the owner, was officially born Château Pontet-Canet. [Read more…] about Château Pontet-Canet 2015
Château Duhart Milon, the famous Bordeaux winery born in Pauillac, has a pretty long history as, already at the beginning of 1700, its wines were known, under the name of Château Milon, and considered the second vin of Château Lafite. The property of the two Château, in fact, was the same, namely the Marquis Nicolas-Alexandre de Ségur, defined by King Louis XV the “prince of wine”, because of his vast vineyards estates in Bordeaux. [Read more…] about Château Duhart Milon 2010
According to historical records, the Château Batailley owes its name to a battle (in French bataille) held near this castle around 1452. It was a battle of historical importance because, on that occasion, the French troops managed to get back the nearby Château Latour and, from that point, began to set the stage, in the famous Hundred Years’ War, for the expulsion of English troops, after 300 years of domination, from Aquitaine. [Read more…] about Château Batailley 2016
Château d’Armailhac history has its roots in the past because as early as 1680 those lands, in the Bordeaux region, were owned by the brothers Dominique and Guilhem Armailhacq, as reported by a municipal register of the same period. Also, from official sources we know that the descendants began to plant vines in the family estate from 1750. [Read more…] about Château d’Armailhac 2010
The history of this Chateau begins with the expropriation of a vast property owned by the Lords of Lafite, sold as “national property”. The estate of Chateu Milon, which was part of that plot of land, was bought in 1789 by the Clerc family who put his surname there renaming it Chateau Clerc Milon. [Read more…] about Chateau Clerc Milon 2015
