France • Château Léoville Poyferré, 33320 Saint-Julien-Beychevelle, France
Château Léoville Poyferre is one of the three historic Léoville estates in Saint-Julien, on Bordeaux’s Left Bank, classified as a Second Growth (Deuxième Grand Cru Classé) in the 1855 classification. The property in its current form dates from 1840, when a portion of the vast original Léoville vineyard passed by marriage to Baron Jean‑Marie de Poyferré and took his name. In 1920 the Cuvelier family, merchants from northern France, acquired the estate; under Didier Cuvelier from the late 1970s, the vineyards were ex…
