Grapes were first har­vest­ed here in 1252 and, by 1305, it had fall­en into hands of oenophile Pope Clé­ment V, whose name it still car­ries. The neo-Goth­ic cas­tle came in 1864 but its mod­ern incar­na­tion is down to ardent entre­pre­neur Bernard Magrez, who owns a hand­ful of notable wine estates and imbues every nook of this one with his imag­i­na­tive pas­sion for the arts. In addi­tion to art­works scat­tered across the grounds (like the alu­mini­um Rolls Royce), his sup­port for clas­si­cal music extends from host­ing con­certs and fes­ti­vals to scour­ing the globe for rare instru­ments, which he then loans to up-and-com­ing musi­cians.