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  • Chateau Cantemerle

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    This fifth growth is one of the very few classed growths from outside the four classic communes of the Medoc. In fact, it barely made it into the 1855 classification at all. The redoubtable then owner Caroline de Villeneuve was incensed to discover that the brokers and negociants she had trusted to manage Cantemerle had neglected to see it included in the classification. She marched down to the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce armed with 40 years’ worth of receipts and commercial documents to prove the prices it was fetching (that being the basic criterion for inclusion).

  • Chateau Cantenac Brown

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    Named after an Englishman- John Edward Brown, who owned it for nearly forty years in the early nineteenth century until he went bankrupt. It is now back in British hands, God Save The Queen, and has produced its best wine for years in 2009. Between Messrs Brown and Simon Habibi, probably the most significant owner was AXA, who turned the enormous and distinctive chateau and many outbuildings into the AXA University. Presumably they are looking to relocate.

  • Chateau Carmes Haut-Brion

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    Having been dealing mostly with the larger Medoc estates recently, here we are looking at one of almost Burgundian proportions, and the comparison doesn`t end there. Like a lot of Burgundy estates this was for over two hundred years a religious house, in this case Carmelite. It is tiny like a Cote d`Or estate too. Listen up, people, with a total grand vin production of around 1,800 cases we`re talking both scarcity and quality.

  • Chateau Chasse-Spleen

  • Chateau Cheval Blanc

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    In 2021, Chateau Cheval Blanc, along with Chateau Ausone, withdrew from the St-Emilion classification. These chateaux alleged doubts about the criteria for (re)classification, citing a drift away from the pre-eminence on terroir towards a focus on marketing considerations. Some critics implied they were miffed by the prospect of having to share their exalted ‘Premier Grand Cru Classe A’ with more chateau (it had been their exclusive preserve prior to the 2012 promotion of Pavie and Angelus).

  • Chateau Clerc Milon

    There is a party on the label of Clerc Milon and the property`s history over the last forty years certainly justifies a celebration. Rescued by Baron Philippe de Rothschold in 1970, the estate has been renovated in both vineyards and cellars, but the average age of the vines is still just over forty years. Because of a mixture of soils, the proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon here is less than might be typical in Pauillac with good dollops of Cabernet Franc and even the now rare in Bordeaux Carmenere.

  • Chateau Clinet

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  • Chateau Cos d`Estournel

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    The chateau at Cos d’Estournel is an Oriental extravagance quite out of keeping with the conventional image of a Bordeaux chateau, to wit, a sedate, serene construction in cream-coloured limestone. Cos d’Estournel reflects the eccentricities and travel habits of its founder, Louis Gaspard d’Estournel, a wealthy young man of the Medoc who had acquired a small parcel of vines near the village of Cos and who, seeing great potential, resolved to create a wine of the stature of Lafite.

  • Chateau Coutet

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  • Chateau de Fargues

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