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Château Haut-Brion
Pessac-Léognan
1er cru classé de Graves
All starts in 1525 with the marriage of Jean de
Pontac, the bride bringing the vines. Pontac family
take more than 2 centuries over "to invent"
the wine of Bordeaux such as we know it: racking
and personalization of their wine they introduce
with the name of haut-brion.
Their action crosses the English Channel; in April
1663, Samuel Pepys writes in his famous newspaper:
"I drunk a kind of French wine called Ho-Bryan"
which had a good taste I never met. For the first
time a wine is called with its name of mark or vineyard,
and not with its appellation (Graves, Medoc...).
Château Haut-Brion will change several times
hands until its acquiring by the American financier
Clarence Dillon in 1935. The duchess of Mouchy,
his daughter, takes care today on the domain, and
too on the next castle La Mission Haut-Brion. |
