Château Brown is a Bordeaux wine estate in the Pessac-Léognan appellation, which extends over about 30 hectares.

The history of the property is almost a thousand years old as there are traces of vines dating back to the 12th century. The estate took the name Château Brown at the end of the 18th century at the instigation of a wealthy Scottish wine merchant, John Lewis Brown, who settled in Bordeaux shortly after the revolution, and it was he who built the beautiful current Chartreuse. He was also responsible for the construction of Château Cantenac-Brown in Margaux. In 1884, Château Brown was consecrated by winning a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Amsterdam alongside Château Mouton, Léoville-Poyferré, Pontet Canet, ... etc., followed by other medals, and it was elevated to the rank of 1st growth. In 1938, the Bonnel family acquired the 200 hectares of the estate and kept it for three generations.

From 1950 onwards, the modern era saw a large part of the vineyard disappear due to urbanisation, until it was reduced to about forty hectares. This was followed by the frost disaster of 1956, which threatened to make it disappear completely, and it no longer met the conditions to be included in the classification of Crus Classés de Graves in 1953 and 1959. It was not until 1994, under the impetus of businessman Bernard Barthe and the supervision of oenologist Bruno Patrouilleau, that the estate was reborn thanks to a large investment programme in the vineyard and in the cellar.

At the end of 2004, the Mau family bought Château Brown, in partnership with Cees Dirkzwager. Jean-Christophe Mau, the 5th generation of the family, took over the management of the estate and managed to give the wines a real identity, by modernising and investing in the vines, the winemaking procedures and the human resources. Vintage after vintage, the wines have experienced a very good rise in quality. The white wines of Château Brown are in particular among the best great white wines of Bordeaux, while the red wines are now widely recognized as a safe bet of the Pessac-Léognan appellation.

The vineyard is managed in a sustainable way: no fungicides or endocrine disruptors, installation of insect traps with the use of insect repellents, inter-row grassing, natural fertilizers without chemical amendments, no herbicides thanks to weeding and reasoned ploughing. The use of sulphites is very moderate and below the specifications of organic farming. Biodiversity is not to be outdone with almost half of the 60 hectares of the estate covered with parks, forests and fallow land and great attention is paid to the preservation of wildlife: wetlands, tree planting and 4 kilometres of hedges, an orchard of 36 fruit trees, a flower-vegetable farm of 700 m², an apiary composed of 4 beehives, a chicken coop and more than a hundred bat shelters and chickadee nesting boxes.