Château Margaux

With wine being made here since the 16th century, much has been said about the history of this estate and its unique terroir. In 1784, Thomas Jefferson placed an order for Château Margaux on which he wrote ‘There couldn’t be a better Bordeaux bottle’. Multiple references to the wine are also to be found in literary works. To mention a few, a case of Château Margaux was the centrepiece in ‘Thou Art the Man’ (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway famously declared in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ (1926) ‘I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Château Margaux’ and in the second volume (‘The Reprieve’) of ‘The Roads to Freedom’ (1945), Jean-Paul Sartre had the two main protagonists enjoying a bottle of Château Margaux against the backdrop of the looming WWII. After dismal performances in the 1960s and 1970s, Château Margaux’ resurrection at the very top was mostly owing to the exceptional talent, vision and personality of the late Paul Pontallier (1956-2016) who joined the estate in 1983 at age 27 as director.