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Ch??teau Chasse-Spleen 2003, Moulis

Version 1: ??On his way to Spain, Lord Byron stops at the Grand-Poujeaux estate in Bordeaux. He tries the estate???s wine. He is enchanted. ???It is,??? he declares, ???a medicine to drive out spleen.??? From now on the wine is known as Ch??teau Chasse-Spleen. Version 2:??The poet Baudelaire visits a friend who lives near the Grand-Poujeaux estate. He tries the wine. He is enchanted. The wine is renamed after the Spleen poems in Baudelaire???s Flowers of Evil. Which version should we b....

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