The best views over the vineyard come from the tasting room, where you can see that the land, which appears fairly flat on approach to the château, is in fact a perfectly drained slope of gravel terroir. Even the château building dates from 1855, with just additions and renovations to the winery. The GPL vines are unaltered in size or location since the 1855 classification, with 55 hectares (136 acres) in a single block around the château, on an extension of the Bages plateau. Tim Atkin's 10 Most Underrated Bordeaux Chateauxġ0 Things Every Wine Lover Should Know About Ducru-Beaucaillou Today his daughter Emeline Borie works alongside him in marketing and communication, representing the next generation to make Pauillac her home. Their three children were christened in its onsite chapel. This makes him one of the few owner-occupiers among the Médoc classified châteaux, along with his wife Marie-Hélène. He went to the local junior school in Pauillac, followed by a brief stint at boarding school followed by law school, business school and then enology school in Bordeaux, before returning in 1978, aged 24, to live fulltime in Pauillac. Borie himself grew up at one of the family's other estates, a few miles south in Saint-Julien: Ducru-Beaucaillou. Although the Bories originally came from the Corrèze region of France (as did the Moueix family in Pomerol), Grand-Puy-Lacoste (GPL) owner François-Xavier Borie's ancestors became wine merchants and moved to Bordeaux in the late 19th Century, and have made it their home ever since. This 1855 fifth growth is owned by a true Pauillac family. © | Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste enjoys its day in the sun.
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