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Château Pontet-Canet is a winery in the Pauillac appellation of the Bordeaux wine region of France. Chateau Pontet-Canet is also the name of the red wine produced by this property. The wine produced here was classified as one of eighteen Cinquièmes Crus (Fifth Growths) in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 .
Châteaux of Bordeaux Pauillac is home to three of the five Bordeaux's first growth wines (classification of 1855). The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 resulted from the 1855 Exposition Universelle de Paris, when Emperor Napoleon III requested a classification system for France's best Bordeaux wines that were to be on display for visitors from around the world.
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[1] The Chateau has 111 acres (45 ha) planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. A second wine is produced under the label Les Pelerins de Lafon-Rochet. The Chateau is owned by the Tesseron family who made their fortune in the Cognac trade and also own Château Pontet-Canet. [2]
Château de Versailles. A château (French pronunciation:; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.
The tower at Château Latour. Château Latour is a French wine estate, rated as a First Growth under the 1855 Bordeaux Classification.Latour lies at the very southeastern tip of the commune of Pauillac in the Médoc region to the north-west of Bordeaux, at its border with Saint-Julien, and only a few hundred metres from the banks of the Gironde estuary.
The elite of the Jalandhar Pathans, originally from Waziristan, migrated to Lahore to settle in Zaman Park. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The family's senior member, Khan Bahadur Zaman Khan, was a maternal uncle to the mothers of Javed Burki , Majid Khan , and Imran Khan .
The 2000 property boom in Lahore helped populate Valencia. The housing estate is known for its well-landscaped boulevards, connecting a balanced mix of single-family detached homes, community and shopping centres. [1] Valencia covers an area of about 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2). It is named after the Spanish city of Valencia.