Named "Prince of the Vines" by Louis XV, the Marquis de Ségur, Nicolas-Alexandre, sold an estate northwest of Pauillac to the brothers Dominique and Guilhem Armailhacq in 1680. At the time, the Marquis de Ségur was the owner of major Bordeaux wine estates such as Château Latour, Château Lafite, Château Mouton, Château Calon-Ségur and Château Pontet-Canet. The land sold was located right between those that would give rise to Pontet-Canet and Mouton-Rothschild. The first of the new buyers, Dominique Armailhacq, planted vines on the family land, which then covered around 16 hectares, in 1750. By the end of the eighteenth century, the vineyard had grown to 52 hectares and was known as Mouton d'Armailhacq. The growing vineyard was divided between Château Brane-Mouton (later Château Mouton Rothschild) to the north and Château Pibran to the south. By 1831, thanks to impeccable professionalism, exacting methods and unrivalled expertise, the wines of Mouton d'Armailhacq had grown in popularity. This is the work of the vineyard's new owner, Armand d'Armailhacq, and it is this demand for quality that earned Mouton d'Armailhacq its 5th Grand Cru classification in 1855. Twenty-three years later, in 1878, the vineyard now covered almost 70 hectares. Armailhacq's son-in-law, Count Adrien de Ferrand, was then the master of the estate. His neighbor from Mouton, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, became a minority shareholder, then owner of the estate a few years later. Already owner of Château Mouton Rothschild, the new buyer of Château Mouton d'Armailhacq changed the name of the Cru in 1956 to Mouton-Baron-Philippe, which became Mouton-Baronne-Philippe in the late 1970s. In 1968, the estate was reduced to 50 hectares. Following the Baron's death, his descendant, Baroness Philippine and her children, decided to return the Domaine to its former appellation, without the final "q", in order to distinguish it from 1er cru. In 1989, the vineyard formerly belonging to Dominique d'Armailhacq was renamed "Château d'Armailhac". Since 2004, the château has been managed by Philippe Dhalluin, accompanied by Jacques and Eric Boissenot…
