The story of the modern Bordeaux chateau begins with Château Haut-Brion. Early documentation of the land dates back to Roman times when a nobleman named Pesus owned a villa on what is now the Haut-Brion estate. In fact, Pesus’s presence there lent the surrounding commune its modern-day name, Pessac. The Romans left Bordeaux in the 4th century CE, but it wasn’t until the 15th century that the property’s first vines were planted. Around this time,…
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