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La Fleur Morange's story did not begin with a 17^th century aristocrat, but a carpenter, who started planting grapes to prevent the local authority from turning some of his land into a housing development.

Located in Saint-Pey d'Amens, this tiny family property of 3.50 ha is distinguished by its unique terroir, located in Saint-Emilion. Planted at the foot of the ''Terre Blanche'' hillside, the century-old vines enjoy clay and limestone soil, rich in iron grime, an atypical alchemy that adorns the wine with an aromatic complexity that had to be tamed, measure and retouch. Perhaps until you find on the palate this constant emotion that characterizes it.

A Carpenter that started a Garage Wine
In the 1990s Jean-François Julien was a carpenter who knew nothing about wine but used to mend furniture for the aristocratic owner of Château Canon La Gaffelière, Graf Stephan von Neipperg. Today his own small wine property in St-Émilion enjoys exactly the same status as the count’s did then. Château La Fleur Morange was promoted to Grand Cru Classé in 2012.
Julien fell into wine by accident. He planted vines on some land he owned in his native village St-Pey-d’Armens in the far south-east corner of the St-Émilion appellation purely as a defensive measure to stop the local council insisting, he gave it up for social housing. ‘I knew nothing about wine then', he readily admits. ‘I hadn’t heard of garage wine. But I profited from it, I must admit.’
He is far from the only right-bank garagiste and certainly wasn’t the only smallholder on Bordeaux’s right bank to be inspired by the commercial success of Jean-Luc Thunevin, whose Château de Valandraud was initially made on such a small scale that it could be made in a garage. (Today Valandraud has its own handsome château building and a selling price many times more than that of Canon La Gaffelière.)

A small Château that has become Grand Cru Classé
From now on, Château La Fleur Morange is one of the Grands Crus Classés of Saint-Emilion. The Julien spouses knew how to shape by dint of stubbornness and creativity this unique wine whose first characteristic is to skilfully preserve all the mineral typicity of its terroir. Its strong minerality, its liquorice side due to its Cabernet Franc, and its century-old Merlot give birth to a powerful wine whose length, balance, constant emotion on the palate and full mid-palate characterizes it among the greatest wines.