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 ...

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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 ...

A Rothschild estate in Shandong Province has released its first vintage. It was 10 years in the making. By Amy Qin How a battle over the ranking of St. Émilion chateaus may change the way we value ...

It’s a world record for an auction of a single wine lot. A 300-bottle collection of Chateau Lafite Rothschild wine fetched a staggering $540,000 (approx Rs 2.47 crore) at a Christie's auction in Hong ...

A bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild sold in a Chinese restaurant for 50,000 yuan (US$7,862) recently could well have been fake wine made in China costing no more than 30 yuan. Chateau Lafite often ...

“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 ...

Suspicions are being raised that some customers on the mainland have been duped into buying 2009 Chateau Lafite Rothschild wine before prices and allocations have been determined. In what is being ...

A wine connoisseur was beaten up and robbed of more than $40,000 after going to collect a bottle of the world's most expensive red that he had agreed to buy on an internet site. Quy Duc Nguyen, 53, ...