In 1973 Edmond de Rothschild bought two vineyards emblematic Médoc countryside: Château Clarke, at Listrac, and Château Malmaison, an adjacent property at Moulis.
Together they formed a single parcel of land covering nearly 80 hectares. This was an unusually large tract for the region, but at the time both properties were lying abandoned.
The process of replanting the Château Clarke vineyard and rebuilding its winery lasted six years.

Work on the structures began in 1977 when the vats were installed along with a 3000 m2 facility equipped to mature, bottle and store the finished wine. The final task consisted in erecting a chai, or storehouse, to age the harvest in casks.
The masons had scarcely laid the last brick when Edmond de Rothschild purchased Château Peyre-Lebade, a formerly proud Listrac estate that had also fallen into total neglect. In five years, 55 hectares of land was drained, reterraced and lined with over 10 km of ditches before being replanted with vines.
Once the wine vats were completed, the redevelopment of Château Peyre-Lebade was brought to a successful conclusion in 1989 with a new storehouse capable of holding over 2000 casks and oak tuns with a capacity of 1800 hectolitres. The first Malmaisons and Peyre-Lebades were 1988 vintages.

On the fairest stretch of the Peyre-Lebade plain so cherished by painter Odilon Redon, the three estates – Château Clarke (55 ha, Listrac), Château Malmaison (24 ha, Moulis) and Château Peyre-Lebade (55 ha, Listrac) – form a rectangle running 2 km North-South and 1 km East-West. With a surface area of 134 ha, the overall parcel is the second largest in Médoc after Larose-Trintaudon (172 ha).

Beginning in 1970, the wines produced in the 1100 hectares now covered by the appellations contrôlées Listrac and Moulis gained new appeal. A number of illustrious châteaux – Chasse-Spleen, Poujeaux and Fourcas Dupré among them – attest to the area's growing notoriety.

Listrac and Moulis were already being cited in the mid-1800s in reference books like those written by Cocks and Feret. The towns' wines were reputed for their potency, colour and remarkable.

Leading oenologists also praise the full-bodied Listracs and Moulis for their ability to withstand handling and mellow with age.

Away from "the river" (the Gironde), nestled between Margaux and Saint Julien, two of the Bordeaux region's most famous labels of origin, the land around Moulis and Listrac is blessed with soils ideally suited to grape growing – a bounty that finds full expression in the area's native wines.