Appellation : Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé

Created in the late 18th century, the Bellefont-Belcier estate is wonderfully situated on Saint-Emilion’s south-facing slopes, neighbourhing Château Pavie, Château Larcis-Ducasse and Château Tertre Roteboeuf. Château Bellefont-Belcier originally belonged to a very powerful Bordeaux family: at the end of the 18th century, the Count Louis-François de Belcier had first founded the vineyard then, at the beginning of the 19th century, he build the Château which he named Bellefont (Belle Fontaine means ‘beautiful fountain’ and is a reference to the numerous springs hidden on the hillside into which the vines plunge their roots.) the Château came into the hands of the Faure family in the late 19th century. It was at that time that the vineyard became one of the spearheads of the Bordeaux wine region and won a great many awards (including the only gold medal awarded to Bordeaux wines at the Paris competition of 1892). It was also in that period that the vineyard and winery facilities were restructured by one of Pierre Faure’s sons, an agronomist who designed the famous circular vat-house which has been kept intact ever since and is one of the jewels in the crown of the estate. Château Bellefont-Belcier was classified in 2006 as Grand Cru Classé. Peter Kwok acquired the property in 2017.