Château Brown

Château Brown traces vines on its Léognan land to the twelfth century, though the estate took its present name much later. Scottish wine trader John-Lewis Brown acquired the property in 1795, built its country house and gave the château the name it still carries. After post-war decline and the loss of its vines, Brown began a sustained revival in the 1990s; the Mau and Dirkzwager families took over in 2004 and continued the rebuilding.

The estate now holds thirty-one hectares of vines in one block within Pessac-Léognan: twenty-six for red wine and five for white. Two gravel ridges, with clay and sand beneath, are planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon. Parcels are kept separate in the cellar; the whites ferment in barrel and age on lees, while the reds mature before the final blend.