Producers

Question 1

What Bordeaux chateaux is known for their chai, surmounted by Chinese pagodas and insued with eastern decor?

Answer 1

Cos d’Estournel

*higher proportion of Merlot (35-40%) from the ’90s to 2002. Now focuses on more Cab Sauv (75%)

Question 2

What is the northernmost classed growth of the Medoc?

Answer 2

Calon-Segur, north of the village of St. Estephe.

Question 3

Who was known as the “Prince of Vines?

Answer 3

Nicolas-Alexandre, marquis de Ségur (1695–1755)
–“The Prince des vignes” due to his ownership of some of the most famous Bordeaux chateaus-including Château Lafite, Château Latour (stayed in his family till 1963), Château Mouton and Château Calon-Ségur.

Question 4

What Bordeaux property is owned by the Champagne house Louis Roederer?

Answer 4

Pichon-Lalande Comtesse (purchased in 2007)

Question 5

What château is considered the “Mouton for not-quite millionaires”?
Growth?

Answer 5

Château Lynch-Bages, long been loved for its richly spicy wine. Originally consisdered “only” a fifth growth.

Question 6

What château on the left bank is the only certified biodynamic?

Name two other château working towards biodynamic certification.

Answer 6

In the Médoc, Château Pontet-Canet is still the only château to be biodynamic.

Latour and Palmer are both working towards biodynamic certification (still??)

Question 7

Who owns Château Duhart-Milon?

Answer 7

Château Lafite Rothschild

Question 8

Who owns Château d’Amailhac and Clerc Milon?

Answer 8

Château Mouton Rothschild

Question 9

What was the first Bordeaux to appear in Christie’s catalog in 1771?

Cepage?

What is the second label?

Answer 9

Château Margaux
Typically 85-90% Cab Sauv, with Merlot, Cab Franc and occasionally Petit Verdot. 20-24 month élevage occurs in 100% new oak.

Pavillon Rouge: Typically 60-70% Cab Sauv with a remainder of Merlot. Aged 20 months in 50% new oak. 120,000 bottle production. Inaugural vintage 1978.

Question 10

What producer was once known as Château de Gasq?

What is their second wine?

Answer 10

Château Palmer (renamed in 1814 by English general Charles Palmer.)

Alter Ego: Inaugural vintage 1998

Question 11

What Bordeaux estate would be the most “Pauillac-style” of St Julien and pioneered green harvesting in the 1980s?

Style?
Their second wine?

Answer 11

Château Léoville-Las-Cases

—Le Petit Lion du Marquis de Las Cases

—veers toward concentration and richness rather than elegance.

—pioneered green harvesting in the late 1980s
—not afraid to employ modern technologies like reverse osmosis in its hunt for power, ripeness, and depth—and a desire to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the five first growths.

Question 12

What Chateau are generally considered Super Second wines in Bordeaux?

Answer 12

Super Second, a specialist term in the fine wine market for classed growth wines from Bordeaux to denote the best-performing wines that are not actually first growths.

There is no absolute agreement about which properties qualify as Super Seconds, and reputations are constantly changing, but listed below are Chateau that have all been nominated at one time or another:

Ch. Pichon-Lalande, Pichon-Baron, Pontet Canet, Lynch Bages, and Les Forts de Latour in Pauillac,

Cos and Montrose in St-Estèphe,

All three Léovilles and Ducru-Beaucaillou in St-Julien

Ch. Palmer in Margaux

Ch La Mission-Haut-Brion in Pessac-Léognan