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. These parcels lie around the new winemaking facilities which sit 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 group of parcels lie 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. It is within these parcels that the little cabane, with Lynch-Bages emblazoned on the roof (and pictured on the preceding page) is located.
There are thren a few scattered parcels on the Saint-Lambert plateau, where perhaps a dozen châteaux mangle in a patchwork quilt of vineyards, but the third major concentration of parcels lies further south again. These vines are located near the border with St Julien, in the western reaches of the appellation. A number of properties have some inland parcels here, the vines usually feeding into the second wiens; they include Pichon Baron, Pichon Comtesse, Haut-Batailley and Latour. The Lynch-Bages vines in this plot were replanted in the 1960s.
