Vin(s) du Château Leoville Poyferre 

In 1638, under the reign of Louis XIII, Maître Jean de Moytié, an ennobled bourgeois of Bordeaux and adviser to the Parliament of Bordeaux, owned a vineyard planted on a mountain of gravel near the River. This place then took the name of "Mont-Moytié". At the beginning of the 18th century, the estate became the property by marriage of the House of Gascq. Rich in ambition for his wine, Alexandre De Gascq brother of Antoine De Gascq, renamed Mont-Moytié in Léoville (also known as Lionville), after the name of his first estate, a "model property" located on the right bank. On the death of Alexandre de Gascq, after 35 years of acquisitions and land clearing, the Léoville estate in Saint-Julien had become the largest in the Médoc, covering 120 hectares. In 1804, the Maison de Négoce de Vins Henri Cuvelier et fils was created. In 1840, a land division, respecting the equitable distribution of the vineyard and land, took place. Pierre Jean de "Lascases", received the share which was to constitute the original domain of Château Léoville Lascase. His sister, Jeanne, ceded her rights to her daughter married to Baron Jean-Marie Poyferré de Cerès, from a noble house of Armagnac. Typically Gascon, this name of Poyferré means a “rail point”. By the partition of 1840, the Léoville-D’Abadie brand had already been abandoned in favor of the Baron de Poyferré brand. The buildings of Château Léoville Poyferré and Léoville Lascase were also divided into two parts and still are. This situation is quite exceptional in Médoc, as in Bordeaux. In 1855, the Léoville Poyferré property was classified 2nd Cru Classé of Saint-julien. Jean-Marie Poyferré and his wife resigned themselves to parting with Léoville Poyferré, which they eventually sold in 1865 to the Lalande and Erlanger families, a large family of bankers and wine brokers. Château Pontet Canet is a great investment wine and an excellent pleasure wine. "