Château Duhart-Milon-Rothschild

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The Château Duhart-Milon is a vineyard of Bordeaux . Since the classification of 1855 , the winery has been classified as Quatrième Grand Cru Classé (fourth level of classification).

The estate is located in Pauillac , it is quite large with about 152 hectares , of which 71 hectares are planted with vines. 69% of the vineyard with the grape variety Cabernet Sauvignon , 28% with Merlot and 3% with Cabernet Franc planted. The average age of the vines is 28 years. In the middle years the estate produces around 360,000 bottles of wine.

The must fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. The expansion takes place depending on the year for 10-18 months in barriques. After the protein has been refined, the wine is drawn onto the bottle.

Duhart-Milon-Rothschild is owned by the same Rothschild family branch, which also includes the neighboring Premier-Cru-Gut Château Lafite-Rothschild . The estate is managed by Charles Chevallier, who is also the technical director of the other Lafite Group properties. The cellar master is Christophe Congé; Régis Porfilet is responsible for the vineyards.

The second wine of the estate is called Moulin de Duhart .

The 2005 vintage deserves special mention with a wine rating of 94 Parker points .

history

Château Duhart-Milon is one of the few classified wineries in the Médoc that does not have its own estate.

The origins of the estate are lost shortly before the French Revolution . The part of the name Milon refers to a small hamlet in the northwest of the municipality of Pauillac. Duhart was the name of an owner family.

The written records known today begin at the beginning of the 19th century. The trader Guillaume Lawton, son of the Irish immigrant Abraham Lawton, reported in 1815 about a winery called Mandavy-Milon, to which he already granted the rank of 4th plant in its unofficial classification. It belonged to Mr. Mandavy until the 1830s. After his death, Mandavy-Milon was split up. Some of the shares went to Pierre Castéja, others to Mr. Duroc. By 1840, however, Castéja managed to acquire the Duroc shares as well. He also added 14 hectares of the widow Duhart's area to the estate.

Oral tradition says that Sieur Duhart Pirat was in the service of King Louis XV. been. This Duhart spent his old age in Pauillac. The house stood until the 1950s and inspired the design of the Duhart-Milon winery label .

In 1855, for the World Exhibition in Paris, the official Bordeaux classification was made; Duhart-Milon's fourth place was confirmed. The Castéja family kept the 50 hectare estate until 1937, but had to pay tribute to the system of inheritance sharing and the resulting quarrels and sold it. In the following 25 years, Duhart-Milon changed hands five times.

World war, economic crisis and considerable damage from hail in 1956 caused financial difficulties for the respective owners. When the Rothschild family took over the estate in 1962, the usable area was 110 hectares, of which only 17 hectares were used for viticulture.

The vineyards were the first to invest. During the first few years, the employees were occupied with replanting, replacing bad vines with healthy planting material, creating drainage and reorganizing the vine parcels through purchase or exchange. From 1973 to 2001, the area under vines rose from 42 hectares to 71 hectares.

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