Wine – Malleret at a gallop

Bordeaux is a history book illustrated. The over time – crises, wars, moments, euphoric and dark Sunday – the scrolls like a movie in fast-forward. Château de Malleret, located at the “beginning” of the Médoc, 18 kilometres from the large city not far from the crus, Cantemerle and La Lagune, the reading of the hours and the woes is easy. Vast wooded area of nearly 500 hectares in the Eighteenth century, when an ex-equerry of Louis XV, with only a small vineyard, it was bought in 1860 by Frederick Clossmann, enterprising merchant. “This is a great period of prosperity…