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When was Chateau Margaux built?
Chateau Margaux is one of the five famous wineries in France. Margaux has a feminine rhythm in French, and Château Margaux wines are known for being elegant, delicate and gentle.
The Chateau Margaux was built during the Napoleonic period and is one of the most magnificent buildings in the Médoc region . Château Margaux employs 70 people and employs 200-250 on a temporary basis during the grape harvest.
Basic Profile
Chateau Margaux, French full name: La Mothe de Margaux Chinese meaning: La Mothe Margaux. French abbreviation: Château Margaux
Traditional Bordeaux chateaux are produced on the left bank of the Bordeaux River. Three of them are located in the village of Pauillac, one is in the village of Pessac, and the estate of Margaux is in the village of Margaux. Margaux Manor is the most splendid pearl among the famous villages of Margaux. The Margaux estate was built in 1590 by Pierre de Lestonnac. Owned by the Lestonnac family for nearly a hundred years. However, due to the relationship between the daughter and the son, and the son to the daughter, the original surname has long ceased to exist.
In 1787, Chateau Margaux was named one of the four most famous chateaux in France by the most famous wine critic in the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson, the then US ambassador to France. The remaining three are Manor Lafite, Manor Latour and Manor Obiang. Thomas Jefferson’s eyesight is amazing. In the 1855 rating more than 60 years later, these four famous wines all entered the first growth winery in the classified chateau.
Brand and size
The Margaux estate has 78 hectares of red grapes, of which Cabernet Sauvignon accounts for 75%, Merlot accounts for 20%, and Cabernet France and Petit Verdot account for 5%. The current hostess of Château Margaux is Corina Menzelpoulos, and the general manager and winemaker of the Château is Paul Pontallier. Corina, a Greek-French man, bought the estate in 1977 by Andre Mentzelopoulos (Corinne’s father), and since then Château Margaux has entered its most glorious period in its history. . When President Hu Jintao visited France in 2001, the French government specially arranged for President Hu to visit Chateau Margaux and taste Chateau Margaux 1982.
Historically related
In 1836, the De La Colonilla family sold the Margaux estate. Later, the Margaux estate was transferred several times until 1934, when the Margaux estate was purchased and carefully managed by the Ginestet family of the great Bordeaux wine merchants. In the early 1970s, Ginestet’s wine trading business was ineffective and needed capital turnover, so it decided to sell the fixed assets of the Margaux estate to cash out.
But they listed three conditions for the sale:
1. Ginestet must retain the exclusive rights to distribute Margaux;
2. Existing employees must not be fired by the new buyer;
3. For what Pierre Ginestet did to Château Margaux To contribute, the new buyer must allow Pierre to live in the château for life.
Although these three conditions make many domestic buyers embarrassed, there are still foreign buyers competing to invest. It is a pity that the French government considers that Chateau Margaux is an important historical and cultural heritage of the French people, so it tries its best to block the entry of foreign buyers.
In the end, Ginestet could only make various concessions, including money, and finally successfully sold it in 1977 to the Andre Mentezelopoulos family of Greeks who ran a supermarket network in France. Andre died in 1980, leaving his estate to his daughter Corinne. In 1987 Corinne decided to merge the family business with the wealthy Italian family Agnelli. Therefore, the Italians also naturally own part of the property rights of Margaux. But the operation of Château Margaux has so far been managed by Corinne.
Philippe Bascaules, who arrived in 1990, enhanced the management of the estate’s team. In 2000, Philippe Bascaules worked hard in the direction of research and development, not missing any opportunity to improve the quality of Margaux wines, looking for innovations in the details of winemaking and making small adjustments. He has also never disappointed wine lovers in the world.
When China’s top leader, President Hu Jintao, visited France that year, the estate he visited was Chateau Margaux. At that time, the wine that the manor invited Chairman Hu to taste was the wine of the 1982 Margaux estate (the best vintage of Bordeaux in the 1980s), which was awarded 99 points (out of 100 points) by the internationally renowned wine critic Robert Parker. ) is highly rated.
