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The small town of Marbuzet was owned by Alexandre de Ségur, the “Prince of the Vines”, who also owned Château Lafite and Château Latour. In 1776, Marc Antoine Domenger, the Estate Manager at Latour, bought Marbuzet and developed it. It then came to be owned by the Mermans, a family of Bordeaux wine brokers.
Jules Merman confirmed the status of Marbuzet’s wine as a Grand Bourgeois Exceptionnel and built the beautiful Louis XVI style Château that one can admire today.
Up until 1994, grapes from the vines that were less than twenty years old in the Cos d’Estournel vineyard were blended with those used to make Château Marbuzet, which constituted a so of second wine for Cos d’Estournel. Château Marbuzet is now made from the seven hectares of vines that surround the Château and Cos d’Estournel’s second wine is made separately under the name Les Pagodes de Cos. Château Marbuzet offers a delightful development of the full, robust rich style which characterizes Cos d’Estournel. Reaching its peak more quickly than Cos d’Estournel, it can be fully appreciated in the years following its bottling.
This is a report from the 1990 vintage .
With regard to the amount, 1990 was a huge vintage. In the 1980s, records were beaten year after year. It is, however, a mistake to believe that vintages were enormous everywhere in Bordeaux. The most ambitious wineries decreased their production with green harvesting and strict choice. Thus, the number of bottles entering the market under the name Grand Vin was often notably smaller than in 1982.
The summer was one of the warmest and driest of all times, and as regards other weather conditions, the year was trouble free. The market hardly believed that there was another super vintage maturing in the barrels. At first, the interest was small, partly due to the depression and partly because the stocks were still full of the good vintages of 1980s. This led to an almost 20 per cent drop in prices compared to the en-primeur trade of 1989. Whoever bought then can be considered lucky, because the wines have developed magnificently.