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Château Latour-Martillac is a wine estate in the Pessac-Léognan appellation in the northern Graves wine region of Bordeaux, just south of the city of Bordeaux and on the so-called left bank of the Garonne. The estate produces blended red wines dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon and dry white wines dominated by Semillon. Latour-Martillac was named Graves Graves Graves Graves in 1959, and is one of the few producers to have both red and white wine classifications. The property has been under vines since at least the 19th century, when it was part of the larger Château La Brède. The modern estate name comes from the remains of a fortified 12th-century castle whose stones were used to build it in the late 1700s. Since the 1870s, Latour-Martillac has been managed by Edouard Kressmann and the Kressmann Wine Merchant Company. His son Alfred went on to buy the estate in 1930 and has remained with the Kressmann family ever since. The family also owns Château Langlet in Cabanac-et-Villagrains in the Graves region since 1999.

Château Latour-Martillac has 42 hectares (104 acres) of vines, three-quarters of which are planted with red grapes. Cabernet Sauvignon makes up about 60% of the vine, along with some Merlot and a small amount of Petit Verdot. Semillon makes up most of the remaining vineyards, followed by Sauvignon Blanc and some Miscadelle - a classic combination of white grapes from the region. The vineyard is divided into two parts. A slightly elevated hill on the estate with gravel soils from the ancient movement of the Garonne for Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot. Close to the modern bank is a still gravel plot with a high concentration of clay in the subsoil, where Merlot and White varieties are grown. There is also a small plot of 0.65 hectares (1.6 acres) called Grattecap, which dates back to 1884 and is mainly planted with Semillon. It is entirely harvested by hand and tilled by horses. Latour-Martillac started producing a second wine in 1986, called Lagrave-Martillac.

In the early 1930s, father and son Alfred Kressmann and Jean Kressmann founded the wines produced by their family's classified wineries with their artistic talents. Got a wine label. The design of the label was inspired by the Art Deco movement, which was very fashionable at the time, the famous design - the "gold and tawny stripes" icon, which is still in use today. Soon everyone was raving about the wines from Château Latour Mathiac. The 1934 vintage of Château Latour Mathiac was included in the "Wine and Spirits Charity" directory. And in December 1936, at the coronation ceremony of His Royal Highness King George V of England, Chateau Latour-Martiac wine was selected and became one of the royal wines of the Royal Family of England.

As a legal sub-region of Bordeaux, Pessac Leognan should be regarded as the youngest one. It has only been 30 years since it became an independent production area in 1987, but this youngest production area is enough to disdain the crowd. The Pessac-Leognan appellation originally belonged to two wine villages under the Graves appellation: Pessac and Leognan. As early as 1855, when the Bordeaux Grand Crus were classified, three of the four First Growths were in the Médoc, and the only one that was not in the Médoc was Haut-Biron (also known as Aubion). The Haubourg winery is located in the Pessac wine village.