Second World Expo
The five famous estates are said to be from the second World Exposition held in Paris, France in 1855, when Napoleon III, the ruler of France, wanted to hold a world-famous exposition and exhibit the most distinctive wine brands in the country to the world, which is the origin of the famous wine 1855 classification.
Château Latour
Château Latour has a history of almost 700 years. In the mid-15th century, due to defensive warfare, the fortifications were expanded, and an auxiliary watchtower was built at the mouth of the Gironde River, known as the St. Morbert Tower, which was the predecessor of château Latour and the origin of the name château Latour, which originally means "tower" in French.
Château Latour
In 1993, François Pinault, founder of the French luxury giant Kering Group, bought Château Latour. At the instigation of François Pinnot, the winery subsequently underwent a series of major reforms to continue château Latour's long-standing top quality. François Pinault is also the owner of luxury goods Gucci, Saint Laurent and Boucheron.
Hou bo king winery
As early as the 14th century, the winery was already a vineyard and has maintained a good development in the operation since. The first recorded wine named Chateau Hauber was in 1660, when the King of France entertained guests with The Hauber's wine. He is the smallest of Bordeaux's five estates, but the oldest to become famous. And he is the only one of the five famous wineries not from the Médoc appellation, but from the Graf appellation, standing out among the many wineries. When others still sell Bordeaux with barreled wines, he was the first winery to put his own winery name on the label, and the first winery to have a sense of brand marketing.
Hou bo king winery
Château Lafite
That is, I like to talk about Lafite in '82, and there have been reports that Chinese can drink more Lafite than The Lafite winery produces, but this statement is incorrect. Because there are many kinds of Lafite on the market, but she is not a fake, the Lafite Winery Group has a lot of entry-level wines, the most obvious of which is that they will have the most typical five arrows on the bottle. And these five arrows represent a well-known Rothschild family. This family is also a rich country, and these five arrows represent the five sons of the original Rothschild family, which are distributed like archery to open banks in European countries and create their own new world. It also represents the unity and harmony of the five brothers, mutual help and close ties with each other, which can efficiently convey the news and make the Rothschild family more and more prosperous.
The Lafite winery was only part of the Rothschild family's property, and at the 1985 Christie's auction in London, a bottle of Lafite signed by US President Thomas Jefferson in 1787 was sold by the owner of Forbes magazine for a high price of 15,000 pounds, setting a record for the most expensive bottle of wine in the world at that time.
Château Margaux
By the 19th century, Château Margaux was already well known as a well-known winery. It has a high reputation in China. Perhaps less well known is that the "Wine Spectrum" printed as early as the twenty-third year of Guangxu has already appeared at Margaux Winery. U.S. President Thomas Jefferson ranked him first in his personal category. The classification drawn up by Napoleon in 1855 also affirmed this. There are also many national leaders who like to drink this wine, such as Mrs. Thatcher and President Nixon. In French history, it has been known as a state banquet wine.
Mouton Winery
Château Mouton was only upgraded to a Tier 1 winery in 1973 and is one of the most famous wineries of the Rothschild family. He is on par with Rafi, and is blessed with a unique location in the village of Poillac in Bordeaux, France. Since the wine was sold in barrels at that time, and then bottled in the hands of distributors, it was easy to counterfeit. Château Mouton also pioneered the first history of bottling on the label, so now we can see that many wine labels will be marked.
After the death of Mr. Philippe in 1976, in order to inherit her father's legacy, his daughter arranged for Mouton Winery to ask the painter to design the wine label every year, and began to bring the original work of the wine label to the world to exhibit, and even found the world's most famous painter at that time - Picasso to paint "Dionysus Festival", which shook the art circle and shook the wine.
The stories of these five famous villages, how many do you think Rafi can be ranked?