Château Haut-Marbuzet

Hervé Duboscq bought seven hectares in Saint-Estèphe in 1952, beginning the family’s work at Château Haut-Marbuzet. His son Henri joined him in 1962, and decades of parcel-by-parcel rebuilding gradually brought the Marbuzet vineyard back together. Today its seventy-five hectares lie on gravel over clay-limestone.

Merlot covers 40% of the vineyard and Cabernet Sauvignon 50%; Cabernet Franc takes 5%, as does Petit Verdot. The château wine spends fifteen months in new oak barrels.