A Great Wine in the city! Founded by Jean de Pontac in 1525, this vineyard of 43 hectares is located in the region of the graves situated south west of Bordeaux, “hors des murs”.

Thanks to their patient technological researches, his descendants succeeded in the 17^th and 18^th in producing a new type of wine which is at the origin of the finest wines of Bordeaux.

These efforts allowed his descendant, Count Arnaud the Pontac to identify and personalize his production. His wines knew a great success in London at that time. So was born the notion of a Great Wine (grand cru) of bordelais! All along its history which is linked to the history the France and Bordeaux, it knew how to maintain his pre-eminence.

The prestigious castle belongs today to the Mr Clarence Douglas Dillon, Ambassador of the United States of America in Paris and former Minister of Finance of JF Kennedy and since the 4^th century, owners, administrators and winemakers of the Château Haut-Brion have always focused on the continuous high quality of the wine.

This property, located in Pessac, 6km away from Bordeaux, lays on a soil composed of gravelly layer and in the southern part of the property, a great variety of sandy layers, clayey-limestone grounds on a graves layer.