 | Chateau Les Ormes de Pez Picture of: Type: Size: Country: Region:
Design/Artwork: Winery Notes/History: Chateau Les Ormes de Pez takes its name from the village of Pez near St Estèphe, as do the other nearby cru bourgeois properties of de Pez and La Tour de Pez. Les Ormes translates as elms, and betrays the presence of a copse of these trees, long since disappeared, near the chateau.
The earliest records concerning the property inform us that during the 19th Century it was owned by Marcel Alibert, a local councillor, who was also the proprietor of the fifth growth Haut Médoc estate Chateau Belgrave, just west of St Julien. Alibert sold Les Ormes de Pez in 1927 to the Société Civile du Haut Médoc, a firm headed up by a Dutchmen Dirk Christofel Meiners, but within two years the business was in serious financial trouble and was rescued by the brokers Louis and Edouard Miailhe. They subsequently sold the property to Jean-Charles Cazes, whose sister had been vineyard manager at the estate under the direction of Alibert, having taken on the role in 1880 upon the death of her husband, who was manager before her. From Jean-Charles the estate was passed to his son André and then to Jean-Michel Cazes, who also owned Lynch-Bages, and oversaw operations at several AXA-Millésimes properties including Pichon-Baron and Suduiraut. In recent years, however, it is the next generation, Jean-Charles, that is taking on more and more responsibility for the winemaking at the Cazes properties. |
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Design/Artwork: Winery Notes/History: Tenuta dell'Ornellaia was founded in 1981, in a beautiful, unspoiled part of Tuscany. From the outset, the mission was to produce outstanding wines. Since then passion and dedication, coupled with a unique terroir and an extraordinary microclimate, have brought the Tenuta dell'Ornellaia's prestigious labels great success and recognition as one of the most important wineries in the world. |
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