The Anseillan vineyards surround the hamlet, which can be viewed from the windows of the Lafite Rothschild chateau, which is illustrated on the stripped-down two-tone label. The stone house, typical ...

“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 ...

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 ...

]]> When an enterprising young man named James Christie opened his sales rooms in London in December 1766, his first auction consisted of the estate of a "deceased nobleman" containing "a large ...

Three bottles of Chateau Lafite’s 1869 vintage each sold for a record price of HK$1.8 million ($230,000) at a sale in Hong Kong last night, underlining Asia’s dominance of the auction market for ...

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 ...

FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS, Rothschild-family members have been the stalwart stewards of the Médoc-region vineyards at Château Lafite Rothschild. As the story goes, Baron James de Rothschild—son of ...

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 ...