To celebrate our 150 years of viticulture, we needed the heavens to send us a tearaway vintage. The sort that plays tricks on us, showing us how our job should always keep us on our toes to protect our vines and our future crops.

An hourglass has been etched onto our 2016 bottles symbolizing a vintage that played hide and seek with us until the last moment...

Bodegas CARO, the Argentinean estate of the Catena and Rothschild (Lafite) families, is happy to welcome Philippe Rolet as Estate Manager starting on January 21st.

As a member of the Colbert Committee, which brings together French luxury brands and cultural institutions, Château Lafite Rothschild regularly participates in initiatives to promote the French lifestyle and French culture at an international level.

He Chongyue is one of the most esteemed contemporary artists in the circle of Chinese photographers today.

To prepare for the future of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite), Jean-Guillaume Prats will be joining the executive management of the Group during the first months of 2018 to succeed to Christophe Salin, the current President and CEO, on the 31st of March 2018. In order to ensure continuity and a smooth transition, Christophe Salin will become Senior Advisor of the Group.

Three young Japanese artists selected by French luxury

The season was marked by very high temperatures from the start, i.e., from September, which brought the harvest forward by 20 days.

During the 2016/17 season, budbreak occurred on its usual date, at the end of September, with warm days after a rigorous winter.