Etienne Théodore Dumoulin planted the first vines at Montrose in 1815 on an uncultivated patch of land covered in pink heather which gave this great estate its name. Encouraged by the estate’s classification as second growth only four decades after its founding, Etienne fervently expanded his landholdings, leaving his heirs a contiguous 95-hectare parcel largely situated […]
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