At 33, Saskia de Rothschild is the youngest person currently leading a Premier Grand Cru Bordeaux estate, the legendary Château Lafite Rothschild, which has been in her family since 1868. She’s also the first-ever female chairwoman of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite), the Rothschilds’ wine empire with its portfolio of eight prestigious wineries on three continents.
The world’s most expensive and sought-after Bordeaux, current Château Lafite Rothschild vintages cost around US$700 a bottle, while highly-coveted bottles such as the 1982 sell for around US$4,000 (according to Bloomberg). A former investigative reporter, Saskia, Lafite’s sixth generation winemaker, has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia and worked for the New York Times in Paris — skills that came in handy for her latest project, Château Lafite: The Almanac, a beautiful new book published by Flammarion.