Château La Conseillante at Vancouver Club
“Since 1871, the Nicolas family has taken extra special care of La Conseillante. With successive generations, vintage by vintage, they have added new chapters to its story.
Each line of vignerons has strived towards the same goal: to preserve this unique vineyard and pass it down to the next generation.
The name “La Conseillante” can be traced back 300 years, to when the influential Libourne merchant Catherine Conseillan purchased the estate and gave it the feminine version of her surname: La Conseillante. Nicknamed the “Iron Lady”, she undertook a programme of renovation at the estate and extended the surface area of the vineyard, taking the total to 12 hectares (nearly 30 acres). Five generations later, the vineyard’s layout, with its mosaic of plots, remains unchanged from that time.”
