When a number of estates in Bordeaux share part of their name, the inevitable questions present themselves: are the estates related; were they once part of a bigger estate; and how did they get where they are today? Lynch-Bages and Lynch-Moussas were once one big estate, but how the estate got divided was not really clear. But divided it was and with the old estate buildings falling to the Moussas portion, that portion got acquired by the Casteja family who started modernizing it in 1969.
The estate now plants 55 ha of vines, average 35 years old with a quarter Merlot and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon. It produces some 220 thousand bottles of Grand Vin as well as a second wine, Les Haut de Lynch-Moussas.
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