Château
Château Desmirail
A third growth of 1855 in the Margaux appellation, in the commune of Cantenac, Desmirail has had the most broken history of the Margaux classified growths: its vineyard was dispersed among neighbours for much of the twentieth century, and the growth was only reassembled and put back into production under its own name from the 1980s. The third-growth rank survived that eclipse, the 1855 classification not being revisable: it records a state of the nineteenth-century market and follows the name of the growth, not the condition of its vineyard. The wine today is a Médoc blend led by Cabernet Sauvignon and filled out with Merlot, in the perfumed, fine-tannined style of the appellation.
Estate websiteClassifications
- The Official Bordeaux Wine Classification of 1855 — Médoc and Graves
Third Growths · Since 1855
Sources
- Official sourceLe classement GCC 1855 par appellation — Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855— Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855 (Médoc & Sauternes)
- Reference bookThe Oxford Companion to Wine— Oxford University Press
- Official sourceCahier des charges de l'appellation d'origine contrôlée « Margaux »— Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO)