Giscours is a major player in Bordeaux, certainly the most famous property on the famed Labarde plateau; it is also the first significant member of the 1855 classification that you meet when driving up the D2 artery through the Médoc. The entire estate covers almost 300 hectares, of which 80 hectares are under vine comprised of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 3.5% Cabernet Franc and 3.5% Petit Verdot. The terroir has long been admired and the late great Bordeaux professor and winemaker Denis Dubourdieu once opined that “Chateau Giscours has one of the most homogeneous terroir/soil in the Médoc area.” Consistency is its watchword, therefore
