Wines classified in: Second Wine

• Haut-Médoc

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

History The history of the Château Sociando-Mallet dates back to the discovery of a document from March 1633 referring to noble lands in the municipality of Saint-Seurin-de-Cadourne, belonging to a family of Basque origin called Sossiondo. There is also a...

• Pauillac

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

The history of this estate began in 1686, when Pierre de Mazure Rauzan, rich merchant and bourgeois of Bordeaux, bought parcels of vines near the seigniory of Latour and created a vineyard, the Enclos Rauzan. A little later, his daughter...

• Saint-Estephe

• Second Wine

History The history of Château Phélan Ségur is linked to that of a young Irishman, Bernard Phelan, a wine broker, who left his native land at the end of the 18th century to settle in Bordeaux. In 1805, he acquired...

• Saint-Estephe

• Second Wine

History Château Montrose appears in history during the 19th century thanks to Théodore Dumoulin. Château Montrose takes its name from the color of the heather that once covered the domain , whose pretty colour of wine lees is well known....

• Margaux

• Second Wine

Château Lascombes owes its name and history to its first owner, Chevalier Antoine de Lascombes, born in 1625. At the end of the 18th century, Jean-François de Lascombes, advisor of the Bordeaux parliament, tries thanks to his fortune to make...

• Saint-Julien

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

Château Lagrange is known in history since the Middle Ages under the name of noble house of Lagrange Monteil and one finds the trace of the various owners since 1631. From 1824 the production is of 120 barrels (12 000...

• Saint-Estephe

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

History Since 1960, the history of Château Lafon-Rochet has been linked to the Tesseron family, which manages this famous 4th Classified Growth in the yellow label with humor, passion and ambition. Michel Tesseron, relayed by his son Basile since 2007,...

• Saint-Julien

• Second Wine

The Abbé Gruaud, worthy representative of the “Noblesse de la Robe”, drew the history of the castle in 1725. The reputed Bordeaux wine broker Lawton spoke wines of a certain “Lord Gruaud” in 1755, a century before its official classification...

• Pauillac

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

History Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste was historically created by an adviser to the Parliament of Bordeaux in the early eighteenth century but the current castle dates from 1850. He entered the Borie family in 1978 and is now managed by François-Xavier. The...

• Margaux

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

Château du Tertre is a property steeped in history. This property has existed since the 12th century and its vineyard of 52 hectares remains unchanged since 1855. It is in the 19th century that the wines of the Castle will...

• Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

• Second Wine

The history of Cheval Blanc began in the eighteenth century, while the current terroir of Cheval Blanc was a modest farm that had a large area of vines, as proven by a map of Belleyme, dated in 1764. Nearly a...

• Margaux

• Second Wine

• HVE (High Environmental Value)

History Château Cantenac Brown is a Grand Cru ranked third in the 1855 Classification, located within the Margaux appellation. The chateau was founded over 200 years ago by a Scotsman, John Lewis Brown. This visionary figure selected the best parcels...