Borie-Manoux is a Bordeaux wine

Bordeaux wine

A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux wine, ranging from large quantities of everyday table wine, to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world...

 négociant

Négociant

A négociant is the French term for a wine merchant who assembles the produce of smaller growers and winemakers and sells the result under its own name....

house, and winery and wine merchant

Merchant

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 group, initially founded as Negociant Borie by Pierre Borie in Pauillac

Pauillac

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 in 1870. The firm was situated in Pauillac until the late 1940s when it was moved to Bordeaux

Bordeaux

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Borie-Manoux is completely owned by the Castéja family, with Philippe Castéja as current CEO

Chief executive officer

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Among the Borie-Manoux holdings through Héritiers Castéja are Pauillac chateaux Batailley

Château Batailley

Château Batailley is a winery in the Pauillac appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. The wine produced here was classified as one of eighteen Cinquièmes Crus in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.-History:...

 and Lynch-Moussas

Château Lynch-Moussas

Château Lynch-Moussas is a French winery in the Pauillac appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. Château Lynch-Moussas is also the name of the red wine produced by this property...

 and Saint-Émilion

Saint-Émilion

Saint-Émilion is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-History:Saint-Émilion's history goes back to prehistoric times and is a World Heritage site, with fascinating Romanesque churches and ruins stretching all along steep and narrow streets.The Romans planted...

 estate Château Trotte Vieille, in all ten Bordeaux chateaux as well as several other Bordeaux négociants, Loire négociant and producer holdings and a number of brand

Brand

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 wines such as the lucrative label "Beau Rivage". Borie-Manoux has also have close ties to London wine merchant Berry Bros. & Rudd

Berry Brothers and Rudd

Berry Bros. & Rudd is a wine and spirits merchant based in the United Kingdom. The company sells wine from around the world, including en primeur wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône and Italy. The company also sells a number of wines and spirits under its own label 'Berrys' Own Selection'...

, for whom they produce the label "Good Ordinary Claret".

External links

• Borie-Manoux official site