“Delighted to meet you,” says Eric, the Baron Rothschild, greeting me with a hearty handshake in the entryway of Château Lafite. It occurs to me almost immediately that it is a lapse of manners on my ...
Great red Bordeaux has a problem, an expensive problem. The trouble is, it's a slow developer, and can take decades to reach the point when it was ready to drink. This situation was fine back when the ...
À l’image de plusieurs autres grands noms bordelais, la famille Cathiard, propriétaire du prestigieux Château Smith Haut ...
When does a bottle of the legendary 1870 Château Lafite Rothschild become a museum piece instead of a promising sip? It’s said that the great vintage took 50 years to unwind, mature, and evolve into ...
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Robb Report may receive an affiliate commission. While Château Lafite Rothschild barely needs an ...
Collectors accustomed to buying Bordeaux straight from the producer only “en premier,” or as futures, ahead of their release into the market, revel in the chance to buy aged bottles that never left ...
En mars dernier, sous un crachin anglais de circonstance, elle racontait les arômes de citrus, d’aubépines et de pêches jaunes du millésime 2017, avant de parler des nappes lithologiques, qui offrent ...
The wines of Bordeaux have always captured the imagination of wine lovers the world over, especially when it comes to the famous chateaux where the finest area wines are produced. Made from a small ...
A Rothschild estate in Shandong Province has released its first vintage. It was 10 years in the making. By Amy Qin PENGLAI, China — In China, the stories about Château Lafite Rothschild are as ...
SEA BREEZES, blue skies and sun-soaked vines: springing to the reader’s mind may not be the northern Chinese province of Shandong, an industrial heartland of shipbuilders and oil refineries. Yet it ...