Château Boyd-Cantenac
Château Boyd-Cantenac is a French winery in the Margaux appellation on the Médoc peninsula . The 17 hectare estate in the district of Cantenac received the rank of 3ième Grand Cru in 1855 as part of the Bordeaux wine classification .
The Château Boyd-Cantenac winery is currently managed by Lucien Guillemet.
The vines in Margaux are 60% with the grape Cabernet Sauvignon , 35% Merlot , 8% Cabernet Franc and 7% Petit Verdot planted. After fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, the wine matures in barriques for at least 12-18 months . Around 70,000 bottles are marketed annually.
The second wine of the estate is called Jacques Boyd .
history
On August 11, 1754, Jacques Boyd, of Irish descent, bought vineyards from the Bernard de Sainvincens family and thus founded the winery. On August 28, 1806, the estate passed to the painter John-Lewis Brown, who had married into the Boyd family and Jacques Boyd was the son-in-law. The greater part he called Château Cantenac-Brown . Brown went bankrupt in 1840 and had to give all of his vineyards to a banker under the name Boyd . In 1860 the smaller property was bought by Armand Lalande and operated under the final name of Château Boyd-Cantenac.
In the meantime, the winery belonged to the Ginestet family. This family was also the owner of Château Margaux at the time . In 1932 the Guillemet family took over the winery, which still runs the winery today (as of 2005) next to Château Pouget .
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literature
- Charles Cocks, Edouard Féret, Bruno Boidron: Bordeaux et ses vins . 18th edition. Èdition Féret et Fils, Bordeaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-35156-013-6 .
- Horst Dippel : The wine lexicon . 3. Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-13826-4 .
- Robert Parker : Parker's Wine Guide (= Collection Rolf Heyne ). Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-16305-2 .
- Clive Coates : The wines of Bordeaux . 1st edition. University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0-297-84317-6 .