Château
Plaisance
Bordeaux
Supérieur
http://chateauplaisance-bordeaux.com/
The
Estate
Château
Plaisance is
located in the Médoc area, at the border of the Margaux appellation, overlooking the Gironde
River. The average annual production is 60,000
bottles.
The construction of the Château
Plaisance itself dates back to the 1780s, but its
vineyards are far older, as can be seen on the 1753
map of the estate which can be found in the
departmental archives of the Gironde.
This
neoclassical "folie bordelaise" with its exterior
double-helix staircase is now a listed historical
monument. It still bears on its pediment the initials
of its first owner, Jean Cavalier, and continues to be
admired by lovers of 18th-century art. The architect
of this monument was François Lhôte who was very
active throughout the Bordelais.
Today, thanks
to the painstaking attention of its owners, Château
Plaisance has been reborn:
"We wanted to give
the wines of Château Plaisance estate a reputation
worthy of the prestigious architecture of the building
itself. That's why the vineyards we tend, the wines we
produce in our chais, the thousands of bottles we
offer wine lovers, everything we do must show our
ongoing concern for irreproachable quality." 
The Vineyard
Back in 1991, Jean-Louis and Isabelle Chollet began to
buy up land in order to reconstitute the vineyards of
the Château Plaisance estate, located at the edge of
the Margaux appellation d'origine contrôlée, on these
famous palud alluvial soils, a terroir that has
regained its former glory.
Overlooking the
Garonne River, ten of the thirteen hectares of the
estate, forming a single block, are now planted with
70% merlot, 20% cabernet-sauvignon, and 10% petit-verdot
grapes. We have chosen to plant at a density of 5000
vines to the hectare to ensure a better concentration
of our wines and to ensure an average yield of about
50 hectolitres per hectare.
The Wine
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