Château Desmirail

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Château Desmirail is a well-known French winery . It is one of the fewer than 70 Grand Cru Classé estates and was classified as Troisième Cru Classé in the 1855 classification. It is located in the municipality of Margaux in the Bordeaux area . The estate covers an area of ​​66 hectares , 45 of which are planted with vines.

The average age of the vines is 25 years. The tillering is classic with the grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon (60%), Merlot (39%) and Cabernet Franc (1%). The wines mature in barriques for 12 months , 35 percent of which are renewed annually. Around 70,000 bottles are marketed annually.

The winery has a second wine called Initial de Desmirail . Château Desmirail is accompanied and advised by the oenologist Jacques Boissenot and his son Eric.

history

In 1661, Pierre des Mesures de Rausan, an important trader in the region, acquired a winery from the de Gassies family. This winery was the origin of the now known Château Rauzan-Gassies , Château Rauzan-Ségla , Château Desmirail and Château Marquis de Terme . Mesures de Rausan was also the tenant of Château Margaux (since 1661) and Château Latour (since 1679). Part of Desmirail's property comes from the dowry of Mademoiselle Rauzan de Ribail, which she brought into her marriage to the lawyer Jean Desmirail. After that there were frequently changing owners with the Sipierre family, who replanted the vineyards, as well as Robert von Mendelssohn , a nephew of the famous composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and grandson of the wine merchant Pierre Biarnez.

During the First World War , Robert von Mendelssohn was expropriated as a German citizen. After the end of the war, the estate was dismembered and the individual vineyards were auctioned, and the Château Desmirail brand disappeared. Lucien Lurton put the plots back together again painstakingly from 1970 and was able to present the first new vintage of the old winery in 1981. In 1992 he passed the management of the estate to his son Denis Lurton.

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  1. ↑ Clive Coates : The wines of Bordeaux. Vintages and tasting notes 1952–2003 . 1st edition. University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0-297-84317-6 , pp. 169 .