The Glass is Always Greener
Wine bottles have become a recognisable uniform for what’s inside – region, grape variety, and more – but this wasn’t always the case. Château Lafite Rothschild’s Frederic Domingo takes us on a journey through the history of bottling.
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.
Ears wide open
Ever taken a ‘blind test’ with sound?
Eyes closed, ears wide open: take an aural journey across our estates.
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.