Staying at the top of the Bordeaux tree involves a lot of effort, and many an airmile. Shorter versions of these two articles ...

Eric de Rothschild loved visiting his family's Bordeaux estate with friends when he was in his twenties. They had fun and they drank a lot of wine—not bad, when the winery is first-growth Château ...

Wine was no exception. Although a minority shareholder in the greatest wine of them all, Château Lafite Rothschild, and cousin to the owners of Château Mouton Rothschild, Jacob was not directly ...

It would take years of effort—his own cousins at Lafite Rothschild would be the last to relent—but in 1973, Mouton was a second no more. Always looking forward, in 1979 Philippe announced a ...