Interview

Saskia de Rothschild became the youngest person to lead a first growth Bordeaux wine estate in 2018 at the age of 31. The first female chairwoman of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) in six generations of the family’s global wine business, she succeeded her father Baron Éric de Rothschild, who was in charge of Château Lafite from 1974 to 2018.

Olivier Humbrecht was born to wine; the family has been making it since the 17th century. The Zind- Humbrecht domaine came into being in 1959, after his mother (Geneviève Zind) married his father Léonard. Every year during Olivier’s childhood, there was some extension to the cellar, with a new parcel of vines every two or three. ‘Perhaps it’sover-stating the case,’ he says, ‘but I almost had the impression that I was being sucked into a sect. I think it’s a common scenario in the agricultural...