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  • Chateau Leoville Poyferre

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    One might expect the three Leoville siblings - Leoville-Poyferre, Leoville-Las Cases and Leoville-Barton - to make broadly similar wines. After all, they are neighbouring estates, all in St Julien, all classified as second growths in 1855, and all once part of the very same estate, Leoville, until debt and Napoleonic-era turbulence sundered them. But with different owners and winemakers at each, they can produce radically different wines.

  • Chateau Leoville-Barton

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    The commune of St Julien may have no first-growths, but it is well served by seconds and fourths (Margaux rules the thirds).

  • Chateau Leoville-Las Cases

    The Leoville plateau has long been recognised as one of the best spots in Bordeaux for producing long-lived, complex, powerful wines. Once upon a time, it was a unitary estate, for a while owned by the Marquis de Las Cases. Then came the revolution, and the estate was seized, and split into three parts, later identified as Las Cases, Barton and Poyferre. Las Cases has the heart of the old estate, the Grand Clos, which sits on gravel soils up to ten metres deep.

  • Chateau Les Cruzelles

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  • Chateau les Ormes de Pez

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  • Chateau Lilian Ladouys

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  • Chateau Lynch-Bages

    Among a certain generation Chateau Lynch-Bages used to be known affectionately as `lunch bags` on the grounds that it was cheap enough to go in one`s lunch bag. While it is no longer quite that cheap, it is still cracking good value for a fifth-growth property that annually outperforms many officially much higher ranked wines.

  • Chateau L`Eglise Clinet

  • Chateau l`Evangile

  • Chateau Malartic-Lagraviere

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