Château du Grand-Bos

The Grand Bos vineyard, split between two sites, at Castres and Portets, on the same stony gravel soil, at an altitude of about thirty metres at the base of the upper terrace, is one of the oldest in the appellation. It produces wines for laying down whose body, bouquet and sap are quite remarkable and whose quality has long been recognised, both in France and abroad, as one of the best of the Graves de Bordeaux terroir. Bordeaux et ses Vins already ranked it at the head of the crus of the commune in 1868.
From the 16th century until 1830, it was the property of the Crozilhacs, burgesses of Bordeaux and lords of Lescaley and Laguloup, whose arms are azure, a chevron or accompanied by three escallops of the same, two in chief and one in point, and one of whose members was parish priest of La Brède in Montesquieu’s time.
It is commanded by a chartreuse with a central pavilion of the 17th and 18th centuries, first restructured in 1771, then restored in 1988 by M. André Vincent, who had previously owned Château La Haye, a Cru Bourgeois Supérieur of Saint-Estèphe in the 1932 classification. It is his daughter, Marie Vincent-Rochet, who today runs the estate, which has vat rooms enlarged in 2005 and an underground cellar able to house 500 barrels.