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1956 red wine for sale – Château Margaux 1956 vintage
The 1956 Bordeaux winter will leave a lasting memory for its record cold weather – it dropped to -20°C in Bordeaux and the Garonne river had blocks of ice floating along it…
Numerous vineyards in the Bordeaux region suffered due to the cold snap – though the vines in Margaux suffered very little.
The growing season started very late, and the cold and rainy summer finally sealed the sad fate of this vintage…
They began picking on 8th October 1956.
Château Margaux would only experience a terrible winter like February 1956 again in January 1985, when the temperature dropped almost as low.
You can find this 1956 red wine for sale – Château Margaux 1956 – at award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London.
A brief history of Château Margaux
Margaux was called “La Mothe de Margaux” (the Margaux mound) from the XII century.
The old name didn’t happen by chance.
In a flat region like the Médoc, the slightest “mound” easily stood out.
This is because the greatest wines always emerge from sloping land that ensures good drainage.
In 1152, England advanced into Aquitaine and continued until 1453.
Thus Bordeaux wines benefited from this new market.
In the ten years from 1572 to 1582, Pierre de Lestonnac completely restructured the property.
At the end of the XVII century, Château Margaux occupied 265 hectares.
A third of the estate was planted with vines, which remains the case today.
Then in 1705, the London Gazette advertised the first auction of 230 barrels of “Margose”.
Later, the 1771 vintage became the first “claret” to appear in a Christie’s catalogue.
In 1896, Count Pillet-Will, Margaux’s owner, employed Pierre Moreau to manage the property.
Subsequently, Pierre Moreau’s most important innovation involved bottling the wine at the château, which he adopted in 1924.
This guaranteed authenticity for the buyers.
In 1950, the Ginestet family acquired the whole property.
In 1977, André Mentzelopoulos bought the property.
The Mentzelopoulos family continues to own Margaux.
