Château Lynch-Bages: Vineyards
Today the vineyards of Château Lynch-Bages total 100 hectares (the entire estate amounting to 105 hectares), divided between three major plots. The first two lie on the Bages plateau near the village of Bages itself, just southwest of the town of Pauillac. One plot, replanted in the 1980s, lies around the château which sits on one corner of Bages, a little village which has benefited greatly from investments made by the Cazes family. These vines thus lie sandwiched between Bages and the industrial and residential suburbs of Pauillac itself, and they were largely replanted during the 1980s.
The second major plot lies to the west, on the other side of Bages, around the D206 which runs south-west out of the commune. Near neighbours here therefore include Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste, on the far side of which lie some woods, and secreted behind the trees is Château Lynch-Moussas. There are some old vines in this section, some with eighty years behind them, as well as some recently replanted vineyards. The third plot lies further south again, near the border with St Julien; this plot was replanted in the 1960s.
