This video presents the five Grands Crus Classés in 1855 of the Saint-Estèphe appellation. Dressed in their labels, the bottles offer different vintages.

Valentine Williams, auteur de romans d'espionnage, fait boire à son personnage, dans son ouvrage "Service Secret", un vin de Saint-Estèphe

The name of the second wine of Château Phélan Ségur, pays tribute to the son of Bernard O'Phelan, the founder of the estate who left his native Ireland at a young age in the late 18th century to establish himself in Bordeaux as a wine broker.

In 1838, Stendhal in his trip to the South of France, described "this very elegant building, of a brilliant light yellow colour, is in truth of no style; it is neither Greek nor Gothic, it is very cheerful and would rather be in the Chinese genre. On the façade we read this single word: Cos".

Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal, was puzzled to say the least. The author of The Red and the Black, who went by stagecoach to Lesparre, discovered this furiously oriental construction with its pagoda roofs, its bell tower (during the war, the occupants stole the gold version of the bells), its crenellated tower, its deluge of carved stones, its high leaf worked in Zanzibar and its rows of palm trees.

L'histoire voudrait que le château La Haye fut le lieu où se retrouvaient le roi Henri II et Diane de Poitiers pour s'adonner au plaisir de la chasse...et de la chair.

It is said that director Stanley Kubrick had a penchant for this wine to the point of making it appear in his film "Clockwork Orange"! During the sequence, where Alex's former victims serve him a meal, they put him on notice to comment on a saint-Estèphe wine: Château Beau-Site Haut Vignoble 1960... Stanley Kubrick, a great fan of the eternal, was a perfectionist: the tasting scene was restarted many times. To avoid the drunkenness of the actor, the level was redone with water! This is how one of the director's favorite red wines was found almost rosé, during the final take.
Owned by the Braquessac family, the vineyards of Château Beau-Site Haut-Vignoble acquired over the generations, extend over an area of 20 hectares. The estate is divided into about twenty plots scattered throughout the town of Saint-Estèphe making it very representative of the appellation.
Three quarters of the plots are located in areas of deep gravel and deserve the term "High Vineyard". The remaining quarter brings a happy complementarity by its clay-limestone soils.
In the blend, Cabernet Sauvignon is the majority (often around 55%) very suitable for gravel terrain, followed by Merlot (40%) which brings flexibility and roundness and a small amount of petit verdot for a complement of perfume and color. The vinification is traditional with a cold pre-fermentation maceration, the extraction by micro pump-overs is done according to the plot potential.