There is much grumbling in the wine world among traditionalists that every winemaker everywhere is crafting wines to be drunk far too young. Like immediately. Like tonight. Now, when your typical ...

A waiter is pouring generous rations of wine in the private dining salon of Chateau Margaux on the left bank of the Gironde estuary in southwestern France. Baccarat crystal schooners are filled to the ...

Decades after her tycoon father bought Chateau Margaux, near Bordeaux, on a whim, Corinne Mentzelopoulos now runs estate that produces prized fine wine When her father died in 1980, Corinne ...

Why interview a winery owner? I received that question from many people in advance of our VentureCrushNY event this past April. There are two ways people apply the word “bubble” to tech: one is to the ...

ABOUT AN HOUR’S drive northwest of the city of Bordeaux, on roads that snake through the vineyards of France’s most famous wine region, is the small town of Margaux. There, at the end of a long ...

Grand Vin du Château Margaux. The 2020 will set you back about $620, but you don’t want that. Expect to pay four figures for the best vintages of the past 20 years. The Yamazaki 25 Years Old Single ...

CHATEAU MARGAUX holds a special place in my heart as a wine writer because it basically kicked off my wine column. In 2004, after my first visit to Chateau Margaux, I wrote my first extensive wine ...

The name Margaux was famous long before Ernest Hemingway's son Jack named his daughter after the wine he was drinking on the night she was conceived. Besides Papa Hemingway, Thomas Jefferson and Sir ...

When I last saw Paul Pontallier I had no idea he was sick. Impeccably dressed in a brown tweed sport jacket with a cheerful yellow tie, he was as effortlessly charming and upbeat as always and full of ...

One day during the Bordeaux grape harvest five years ago, Lord Norman Foster showed up for lunch at Château Margaux. Mutual friends had introduced one of the world’s greatest architects to one of the ...