étoile de villegeorge 2019

The Château Villegeorge wines were highly sough after as early on as the 18th century, to the extent that they fetched prices equal to those of wines that would be classified as 3rd growths in 1855. In 1880 the domain was bought by the Clauzel family who turned it into a model vinyard. When a group of Bordeaux wine merchants established the Crus Bourgeois classification in 1932 only six were awarded the coveted title of Crus Exceptionnel, among them Château de Villegeorge. Its classification was re-confirmed in 1966. The fine quality of the deep gravelly soils did not go unnoticed by Lucien Lurton who acquired the domain in 1973 and began to bring it to life again. In 1992, when he divided his Château among his children, Mr Lurton put Villegeorge in the capable hands of his daughter Marie-Laure, a qualified oenologist, who had already been in charge of the vinification since 1986.