Bordeaux
Château
De Terrefort Lescalle
Château de Terrefort Lescalle, wich respresents 7 hectares, is composed of a few plots belonging to Château Lescalle
Bordeaux Supérieur
Château Lescalle
Château Lescalle was built in 1875 by Emmanuel Tessandier who planted vines on the whole property during the previous century.
Born in 1841, Emmanuel Tessandier was the manager of the Banque de France in Bordeaux and then in Paris. Charmed by the luminous banks of the Garonne, he created the Château Lescalle vineyards on the palus soil. The residence was built on an artificial mound overviewing the river. He maintained his vines with care, passion and professionalism. He became the Mayor of Macau in 1876 and was reelected in 1878.
Château
Laronde Desormes
Bought in 1992, the vineyard belonged during many years to the Tari family, owners of Château Giscours (3rd Cru Classé in 1855).
This vine is located on the lower Gironde terrace, some hundred meters away from the river. The soil is composed of “palus” (clay and sand).
Château Barreyre
The vines surround a residence built by Nicolas Barreyre in 1774. The vineyard dates from later since it was supposedly planted on the 28th of December 1793. The Barreyre were and old middle-class family from the Bordeaux region and counted many magistrates and Stock Exchange consuls.
The 13, 5 hectares of vines stretch over a sand and clay soil bordering the Garonne and called “palus”.
Château
Les Paruades
Château Les Paruades, with a surface of 3,5 ha, has several plots belonging to Château Lescalle.
Château
Tour De Gilet
Château Tour de Gilet is located in Ludon, in Médoc. The vineyard spreads over 8 hectares on a “palues” (clay soil.
Delmonico
In 1827, during New York City’s financial evolution, two Swiss brothers, John and Peter DELMONICO, open the “Delmonico’s Restaurant”. Their nephew Lorenzo joins them, and he will be the real architect of its development.
This “Parisian style” restaurant, located in the south of Manhattan, owes its success to its refined dishes, its fine wines, and its famous “Delmonico steak” (boneless steak from the first ribs adjacent to the beef loin, rib steak). It persists at the same address since 1837.
Margaux & Haut-Médoc
Château Piche Leibre
Margaux
Château Piche Leibre started with the 1990 vintage. Its vineyards are located on a privileged soil, near famous wines (Palmer, Cantenac Brown). The production is very limited and the vintage is almost exclusively sold as primeur.
Château Maucamps
Haut-Médoc
Château Maucamps has 19 hectares of vineyards with a wonderful exposure and planted on Garonne gravel with a clay subsoil. The vineyard is exclusively composed of fine vines such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. All in one piece, the vineyard is located in Macau, near Margaux, bordering part of Château La Lagune and Château Cantemerle (3rd and 5th Crus Classés in 1855).
Château Priban
Haut-Médoc
The property of Château Priban, former jurisdiction of Cantemerle, has benefited since 1879 of important improvements done by its different owners, (especially the increase of the vineyard area). The vineyard is now managed by the owners of Château Maucamps. This cru, classified as “Bourgeois Supérieur” in 1932, lays on an excellent gravel soil, well exposed and nearly totally edged by the Cantemerle vines on the south, east and west sides.
The vineyard is composed of the finest vines. Culture and vinification are attended with the utmost care, thus giving superior quality wines very much appreciated for their delicacy, bouquet and long holding in the bottle.
Clos de May
Haut-Médoc
We trace back this vintage in the Cocks & Féret 1874 edition, under the name of “Au Moulin Demey”, for a production of 14 barrels.The name then changed to Moulin du May and Clos du May (a Cru Bourgeois as it appears in the 1932 ranking). The vines are 100 % composed of merlot.
Château Dasvin-Bel-Air
Haut-Médoc, Cru Bourgeois
Its vineyard, located partly in Parempuyre and on the highest plateau of Blanquefort, is established on an important lean gravel soil resting on a thin coat of sand and a bank of yellow arenite. Wonderfully located, this vineyard has low vines like in Medoc and they are cultivated with the utmost care.
Lussac & Montagne Saint-Emilion
Château Du Moulin Noir
Lussac-Saint-Emilion
According to the legend, the Château du Moulin Noir takes its name from the Middle Ages, when two brothers fought over the land after their father’s death.
Hurt because he didn’t inherit in the same way as his elder brother, even though he had worked on the land all his life, the youngest decided, on a hot summer evening, to set the property on fire as a revenge for having been chased.
Everything burnt down that night except the mill which was slightly off the house but it was blackened by the flames and the smoke. That’s why the property is named Château du Moulin Noir (black mill).
Château Du Moulin Noir
Montagne-Saint-Emilion
According to the legend, the Château du Moulin Noir takes its name from the Middle Ages, when two brothers fought over the land after their father’s death.
Hurt because he didn’t inherit in the same way as his elder brother, even though he had worked on the land all his life, the youngest decided, on a hot summer evening, to set the property on fire as a revenge for having been chased.
Everything burnt down that night except the mill which was slightly off the house but it was blackened by the flames and the smoke. That’s why the property is named Château du Moulin Noir (black mill).