Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — Chateau Lafitte. [ARTICLE]

Chateau Lafitte.

In 1793 the vineyard belonged to M. de Pichard, President of the Guienna Parliament, and the Republican leaders did a good stroke of business by guillotining him and appropriating his property. It was, however, soon sold by the state, and, after passing from purchaser to purchaser at an average price of about £40,000, it was bought some twenty-flva years ago by Baron James,.de Rothschild for £IBO,OOO, and still remains in his family. About £G,OOQ. a year is spent on its cultivation. There is perhaps no wine that gains more by keeping; and some seven or eight years ago a bin of the vintage of 1804 fetched no less than 50f. a bottle at Bordeaux itself.—plackwood’s Magazlue.