Wine geese make magic in Bordeaux

Chateau Lynch Bages is perhaps the best-known of the Irish chateaux in Bordeaux.

Chateau Lynch Bages is perhaps the best-known of the Irish chateaux in Bordeaux.

It was founded in the 18th century by one of the ‘wine geese' - men and women who left Ireland to set up a new life in France.

Its distant neighbours, Chateau Kirwan and Chateau Leoville Barton, were also founded in this way.

Lynch Bages was founded by Galway man John Lynch, who left Ireland in 1691, in what has ...