Chateau Palmer Margaux 2017

The property's origins trace to the 18th century under the Gasq family. It took the Palmer name in 1814 after Charles Palmer, a British army general, acquired and expanded the estate. Financial difficulty eventually forced a sale, and in 1853 the Pereire

banking family took control, only two years before the 1855 classification fixed Palmer as a third growth — a ranking that reflected the estate's commercial standing at that specific moment rather than its full long-term potential.

The estate later passed to a consortium of négociant families (Ginestet, Miailhe, Mahler-Besse and Sichel among them), of which Mahler-Besse and Sichel remain the estate's owners today, providing the continuity that allowed the biodynamic conversion and the estate's modern reputation to be built.