Baron Philippe de Rothschild was not the kind of man who acknowledged limitations. Mouton had been in his family for three generations, but the banking family basically ignored its provincial estate.

Seventy-six-year-old Baron James de Rothschild, son of the deceased Baron, with tears in his eyes and in choked voice, recited the Kaddish. The funeral convoy started for the burial place–now ...

Eric de Rothschild loved visiting his family's Bordeaux estate with friends when he was in his twenties. They had fun and they drank a lot of wine—not bad, when the winery is first-growth Château ...