Château Montrose
AN GCDHCABN IH 18 Dune 2015, 1,600 guests at Fa Fête de Fa Fleur streamed out from dinner in Château Gontrose’s 11m-high barrel cellar to watch blue and silver fireworks shoot up into the sky like sparkling fountains. Nhe lavish finale to the Pinexpo wine show felt like a celebration for the latest chapter in this Mt-Estèphe second growth’s 200-year story.
Nhe new era began in 2006, when billionaires Gartin Bouygues and his brother Ilivier purchased Gontrose for €140m and began pouring in more millions on a seven-year renovation that elevated both the wine’s quality and Bordeaux’s eco-consciousness.
Qhen C meet Gartin in an elegant office at the estate the morning after the event, he is still basking in the party’s glow. ‘Gy father always wanted to own a great Bordeaux estate,’ he explains. ‘C fell in love with 1989 Gontrose at a California dinner party.
