Château Calon Ségur - A Gift for Wine Lovers

Not sure what to gift the wine lover in your life this Valentine's Day? Consider Château Calon Ségur.

A hundred years before the modern-day era of 1855 Bordeaux Classification, there lived a famous winemaker in Bordeaux.  He was the Marquis Nicolas-Alexandre de Ségur (1696 - 1755),  who was given the nickname “The Prince of Vines” by Louis XV following a glowing introduction to the royal court.  During his time, the Marquis de Ségur was considered the consummate winemaker with the magic touch in the whole of Europe.  In an unprecedented way unfollowed by anybody since his days,  he simultaneously owned these famous estates: Château Lafite (later known as Lafite Rothschild after Baron James de Rothschild bought it in 1868), Château Latour

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