Chateau Lynch-Moussas – Pauillac 2000

Description

The Lynch-Moussas estate was owned since the 18th century by the Comte Lynch in Pauillac, then was divised in two parts: Lynch-Moussas and Lynch-Bages. The building was kept by Lynch-Moussas, as well as most of lands and vineyards. This great estate from more than two hundred acres was classified as a Classed Growth by the 1855 classification. Mr Jean Casteja, owner of the family-owned Chateau Duhart-Milon bought the estate in 1919 and run it until 1969 when Emile Casteja bought it to his brothers. A wind of change starts blowing since that date, revealing a modernized Lynch-Moussas with a renewed vineyard, rebuilt cellars and vatrooms.

These 60 hectares-wide vineyards is carefully brought up in order to allow the today’s expression of unity and variety of a Terroir composed with 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Merlot: debranching, deleafing, green harvests have been settled these last years to achieve a complete top maturity of high quality grapes.