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Chateau Carbonnieux,Carbonnieux Pessac-Leognan Blanc, 2016 LOIRECT0126 but it's supple and welcoming—notChateau Carbonnieux is one of Bordeaux's oldest estates, with documented history back to 1234. Benedictine monks famously marketed their white wine to the Sultan of Constantinople as "Mineral Water of Carbonnieux" to circumvent alcohol prohibitionand Thomas Jefferson visited during his 1787 Bordeaux tour. The Perrin family has owned the estate since 1956 and now farms nearly 100 hectares on a mosaic of gravel, sand, limestone, and clay. Carbonnieux