Château Lynch-Moussas
The Château Lynch-Moussa is a well-known vineyard of Bordeaux . Since the classification of 1855 the winery has been classified as Cinquième Grand Cru Classé (fifth level of classification).
The estate is located in Pauillac and is medium-sized with around 24 hectares . 70% of the area is with the grape Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% with Merlot planted. In the middle years the estate produces around 250,000 bottles of wine .
The estate's second wine is called Les Hauts de Lynch Moussas .
The winery is currently owned by the Castéja family. They also own Château Batailley , Château Trottevieille , Château Bergat, Domaine de l'Église and Beau Site.
history
Born in Galway in 1669 , John Lynch came to France as part of the Wild Geese's escape . The escape of the Wild Geese refers to the emigration of an Irish Jacobean army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691. John Lynch settled in Bordeaux as a dealer in textiles, wool and leather and married Guillemette Constant. In 1710, John Lynch was naturalized as French and called himself Jean Lynch.
His son Thomas-Michel married Elisabeth Drouillard in 1740. When Elisabeth's father, Pierre Drouillard, died in 1749, his daughter inherited half of the Bourdieu de BATGES estate and paid Pierre's widow 42,000 livres to become sole property . This year represents the creation of the Château Lynch. He later acquired both lands to expand Château Lynch. Also château dauzac was the property of the Lynch family. On the occasion of the wedding of his fun-loving and politically interested son Jean-Baptiste in 1779, Thomas-Michel passed the property on. Since he did not know how to manage the winery efficiently, Jean-Baptiste soon passed the management of the winery to his brother Michel. Michel Lynch remained responsible for the Château Lynch estate until 1824. After the death of Jean-Baptiste Lynch in 1835, the Lynch winery was split up. The Château Lynch-Moussas, named after the hamlet of Moussas, probably went to Vasquez, who is listed as the owner during the classification in 1855.
In 1919 Jean Castéja bought the dilapidated property. But only Émile Castéja concentrated from 1969 on the restoration of the vineyards and the wine cellar. The first vintages under his leadership were expanded in the neighboring Château Bateilley.
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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patrick Clarke de Dromantin: Les réfugiés jacobites dans la France du XVIIIe siècle . ISBN 978-2-86781-362-7