The Château Brane-Mou­­ton was acquired by Baron Nathaniel de Roth­schild in 1853 but it wasn’t until his great-grand­­son Philippe took the reins in 1922 that its place in his­to­ry books was sealed. A Renais­sance Man list­ing race­car dri­ving, writ­ing and film pro­duc­ing among his tal­ents, his lega­cy at Château Mou­ton Roth­schild includes its upgrade to First Growth sta­tus in 1973 (join­ing only four oth­er estates named in the 1855 clas­si­fi­ca­tion and the only excep­tion ever allowed to this rul­ing), and the cre­ation of land­mark art col­lec­tions still evolv­ing today. Now run by his three grand­chil­dren, the estate is very much a part of mod­ern Bor­deaux.