Pierre de Rauzan
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Pierre de Rauzan was a Bordeaux wine merchant. He served as estate manager of Château Latour. In the 1690's he began buying land in the Médoc near the village of Pauillac.
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[edit] Legacy
Upon the marriage of his daughter Thérèse to Jacques François de Pichon, Seigneur de Longueville, Rauzan passed on the estate to them which became the Pichon Longueville estate that would later split to the Second growth estates of Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande and Château Pichon Longueville Baron. To his three sons, he bequeath 60 acres of vineyards around Château Margaux that would later become the second growths of Château Rauzan-Ségla and Château Rauzan-Gassies.[1]
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[edit] External links
- Château Rauzan-Ségla Profile
- Château Rauzan-Gassies Profile
- Château Pichon Longueville Baron Website
- Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Website
[edit] References
- ^ H. Johnson Vintage: The Story of Wine pg 256 Simon and Schuster 1989 ISBN 0671687026
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