Don’t spit out the seeds
How winemakers use their teeth to pick the perfect day to harvest.
Every year as harvest nears, the teams at Domaines Barons de Rothschild Lafite taste the berries, chew the skins and crack the seeds between their molars. Discover how berry tasting, one of the last purely sensory skills in the hyper-analytical world of wine, influences the harvest.
Celebratory notes: memories of Lafite’s 150th anniversary
A look back at three unforgettable dinners held in May 2018 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Château Lafite Rothschild — an event attended by distinguished guests from all walks of life.
Ears wide open
Ever taken a ‘blind test’ with sound?
Eyes closed, ears wide open: take an aural journey across our estates.
From the heart of our cellars to the top of the charts: Lafite in song
Recipes
When Château Lafite Rothschild finds its way onto playlists across the globe.
The last Clémenceau
A Family History
Jérôme Clémenceau is the machinery supervisor at Lafite, and will be the last of his family to work for DBR Lafite. Conversation with Saskia de Rothschild.
A question of etiquette
A FAMILY TREE OF LAFITE LABELS.
Why not join us on a little label tour, from first to latest: via Bombay, Supreme, and a light touch of make-believe.
Meet The Family, Primeurs Style
THE ‘PRIMEURS’ EVENT IS A MUCH-ANTICIPATED MOMENT IN THE WINEMAKER’S CALENDAR.
At the end of spring, wine merchants and collectors gather to taste the vintages harvested the year before, for the first time.
Origin Stories
A short route through some etymological roots
We’ve been digging for root words – words that give origin to others. Root covers a lot of ground, offering meanings whose tendrils we’ve attempted to follow.
Hard Graft
A THRILLERISH TALE OF CLONES, SCIONS, CHIMERAS AND OMEGA CUTS.
Vine grafting is the close-to-magical technique of fusing a new vine cutting to an old vinestock to create a genetically-compound new plant.