Wines classified in: Second Wine

• Margaux

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

History: Denis Lurton is the current owner of Château Desmirail. He inherited it in 1992, after his father Lucien Lurton acquired the estate in 1980. For the previous 60 years, the estate was integrated into Château Palmer and literally disappeared...

• Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

• Second Wine

History Born in 1985, Clos La Gaffelière has his own vat room and cellars. Ageing is done, in large part, in one- and two-years old barrels. The blend is usually a large majority of Merlot (up to 90%) and the...

• Bordeaux Blanc

• Second Wine

History The story of Petit Cheval Blanc began in 2006, when Château Cheval Blanc acquired Château La Tour du Pin. Planted with Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and a little over 8 hectares in size, this grand cru produced red wine...

• Pauillac

• Second Wine

• Biodynamic
• Organic

History The LIBERAL family had run the estate since the early XVIIIth century. Then as wine brokers from father to son, they would sell most of the crops to the Netherlands and Belgium. Thanks to their name being next to...

• Margaux

• Second Wine

History From ‘the thorny shrub’ that the etymology of «gorsse» proffers to the splendid vineyards of Labégorce today, generationsof lords and farmers have succeeded in shaping the identity of the estate. A vision was also needed, an intuition thatreveals the...

• Pomerol

• Second Wine

  History The history of Château L’Evangile is first of all linked to the Léglise family, originally from Libourne. It is from the eighteenth century that they participate actively in the constitution of this vineyard of Pomerol. However, it is...

• Pauillac

• Second Wine

Château Duhart-Milon’s second wine is selected on the same basis as the “Grand Vin”. In general, the grapes are from the younger plots in the vineyard. Moulin de Duhart has several characteristics similar to the grand vin, but with less...

• Pauillac

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

History Three large plots of land located on the best terroirs of Pauillac form the vineyard of Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse, Grand Cru Classé. The history of the Château begins when Arnaud Ducasse bought in the middle of the seventeenth century to...

• Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

The history of Château Chauvin began in 1852 during the division of the great stronghold of Corbin, giving birth to multiple properties, including Chauvin which was then acquired by Jean Fourcaud-Laussac. The latter, who had just offered what would become the...

• Montagne Saint Emilion

• Second Wine

The Despagne family has been present in the history of Saint-Emilion since the 16th century, as evidenced by genealogical writings. It was Louis Despagne, whose family was a sharecropper on Cheval Blanc, who acquired the first family parcels, at a...

• Haut-Médoc

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

Le Château du Retout is characterized in history by its mill of the thirteenth century located at its center which is none other than the highest point of the property (17m high). The crisis of phylloxera (nineteenth century), the war...

• Pauillac

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

The history of Echo de Lynch Bages begins with the name of Haut-Bages Averous, who for a long time designated the second wine of the Château, fruit of a selection decided for the first time on the occasion of the harvest...