Chateau Haut Bages Liberal Pauillac

The name of Chateau HautBages Liberal has two roots. The LIBERAL family ran the property in the early eighteenth century. Brokers from father to son they sold the harvest in the Netherlands and Belgium. Their name adjoining to the topographical designation earned them to be invited worldwide to the table of political parties of the same name. Over time these connoisseurs gathered the best soils of Pauillac. Thus this 5th Classified Growth in 1855 now has half of its vineyards adjacent to Chateau Latour and the other half behind Chateau Pichon Baron on the heigh ts of the locality Bages a large plateau in the south of Pauillac. The property would regain his youth when in 1960 the Cruse family owner of Chateau Pontet Canet another 5th Classified Growth in Pauil lac acquired the property. The Cruse would launch an extensive program of replanting the vineyard. However it was in 1983 at the arrival of the Villars family that Chateau HautBages