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
The wine production of the Antinori family boasts, among its ranks, real wine monuments, able to warm the hearts of their fans around the world. On the other hand, it is still one of the oldest Maison, now in its twenty-sixth generation, with Albiera, Alessia and Allegra Antinori, daughters of the Marquis Piero Antinori, after more than 600 years of history. [Read more…] about Guado al Tasso 2015, Antinori
To determine the origins of the Maison Dourthe it is necessary to go back to 1840, when a hotelier from Lit-et-Mixe, a charming coastal town halfway between the city of Bordeaux and the border with Spain, moved there to engage in a new wine business; that man was Pierre Dourthe. From one generation to another the trade continued to give satisfaction to the Dourthe family that, in 1929, bought Chtâeau Maucaillou, its first Château, laying the foundations for the development of a viticulture entirely based on the concept of terroir. [Read more…] about Essence de Dourthe 2005, Vignobles Dourthe
According to official records, the village of Olena was a real Tuscan farm, halfway between Florence and Siena, self-sufficient already in the 12th century, while the neighboring and coeval village of Isole became a real farm only in 1700 by the Elmi family. In the 1950s a certain Francesco De Marchi, descendant of a Piedmontese family in the Lessona area, who has been producing Piedmontese wines for three generations, moved to Tuscany and bought the two farms, giving rise to the Isole e Olena winery. [Read more…] about Cabernet Sauvignon Collezione Privata 2016, Isole e Olena
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
Andrea Franchetti’s genius and resourcefulness is well represented by his famous wines on Etna volcano and in Val d’Orcia, in Tuscany: the famous Franchetti and the iconic Tenuta di Trinoro. [Read more…] about Le Cupole di Trinoro 2018, Tenuta di Trinoro
The history of Chateau Leoville Poyferré starts in 1638 when, in Bordeaux, Jean de Moytié started harvesting a vineyard knew as Mont-Moytié, held by Moytié family for almost 100 years. [Read more…] about Chateau Léoville Poyferré 2006
