Château Margaux

Médoc, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Completed in 1812, for Bertrand Douat (1742-1816), Marquis de la Colonilla. During the French Revolution (1789), Elie du Barry, the owner of this world-famous wine estate was sent to the guillotine, just two years after Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) had made note of it as one of the "four vineyards of first quality". It became the property of "citizen Miqueau" who left it to ruin until it was rescued by Laure de Funel up until she was forced to sell. In 1802, the Marquis paid 654,000 Francs for the estate and commissioned the celebrated Louis Flambes to build the chateau as seen today....

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In 1879, Captain John Hamilton Drummond (1851-1889) took some of the Chateau's Cabernet Sauvignon cuttings to California and planted the North Coast's first documented Bordeaux vineyard at Beltane Ranch, sold ten years later to the first female African-American millionaire, the remarkable Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1904).