Marjolaine de Coninck Director Domaines Perrodo Domaines Perrodo Château Marquis d’Alesme, 3ème Grand Cru Classé en 1855, Margaux Château Labégorce, Margaux Château La Tour de Mons, Margaux Met by Gerda Gerda: Tell us about you… Marjolaine de Coninck: I consider myself as a builder. I love having projects that are like new pages in […]
Hubert de Boüard Director Hubert de Boüard Consulting & Oeno-lab Co-owner Château Angelus Met by Gerda Gerda: Tell us about you… Hubert de Boüard: I describe myself first as a winemaker who was born and raised at Angelus. I am someone passionate about the vine and wine. When my father stopped working in 1985, I […]
Michael Egan Expert Met by Gerda In the same way as the luxury market, wine is also affected by counterfeiting. Châteaux are therefore implementing colossal measures to protect their bottles from being replicated. This phenomenon is growing and today’s counterfeits often have nothing to do with the vulgar, though still present, imitations that were […]
Guillaume Thienpont Technical Director Working at the estate since 2011 Met by Gerda at the Château Vieux Château Certan Château Le Pin Pomerol Gerda: Tell us about you… Guillaume Thienpont: I could summarize by saying that I am passionate about my job. The vineyards of Vieux Château Certan and Château Le Pin are the […]
Mathieu Jullien (left) Marketing & Sales Director Lorenzo Pasquini (right) Estate Manager Met by Gerda at the Château Château d’Yquem 1st Grand Cru Supérieur Classé en 1855, Sauternes Gerda: Approaching the release of Château d’Yquem 2020, I had the opportunity to discuss with Lorenzo Pasquini, Estate Manager, and Mathieu Jullien, Sales and Marketing Director at […]
Wilfrid Groizard (left) Deputy General Manager Working at the estate since 2013 Edouard Kressmann (right) Technical Director Met by Gerda at the Château Château Latour-Martillac Grand Cru Classé de Graves Pessac Léognan Gerda: Tell us about you… Wilfrid Groizard: My roots are in Vendée. I started my career in media marketing outside of Bordeaux, […]
Pierre-Olivier Clouet Technical Director Working at the estate since 2008 Met by Gerda at the Château Château Cheval Blanc Saint-Emilion Grand Cru I headed to Saint-Emilion to discover the exceptional white wine of Château Cheval Blanc: Le Petit Cheval blanc. Pierre-Olivier Clouet, technical director of Château Cheval Blanc since 2008, received me at the […]
Alessandro Marini Technical director Luce della Vite Working at the domain since 2019 Met by Gerda Tenuta Luce della Vite Tuscany, Italy The day after my interview with Axel Heinz, Director and Wine Maker of Ornellaia, I set off to discover two other Frescobaldi family estates: Tenuta Luce and Tenuta CastelGiocondo. The estates were, […]
Axel Heinz Director of Domaines Ornellaia Working at the estate since 2005 Met by Gerda at the Domaine Ornellaia Tuscany, Italy In July 2022, I had the great pleasure of visiting some of the wineries in Tuscany we work with. The beauty of the landscapes, the generosity of the Italians, the savoir-vivre and the high […]
Patrick Lachapèle Managing Director Tenute di Toscana Met by Gerda In Bordeaux, I met an important man for La Place de Bordeaux, the Managing Director of Tenute di Toscana, Patrick Lachapèle. Tenuta di Toscana is the name of the representative office of the Frescobaldi Group’s estates: Ornellaia, Masseto, Tenuta Luce and Tenuta CastelGiocondo. After […]