A Busy Bordeaux Lady
Charming, articulate and very capable are just three descriptors that sit easily on the shoulders of Sylvie Cazes-Regimbeau, recently appointed as managing director of all the Louis Roederer properties in Bordeaux. This, in addition to her other role as president of the Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux, will make her a busy lady indeed.
When I met her recently in Bordeaux she seemed unfazed by the multiplicity of roles she now fills (she also has a role in the running of the Cazes family châteaux, Lynch-Bages and Les Ormes-de-Pez). Far from it. Instead, she paid tribute to the strong team that she can rely on in each job.
Lynch-Bages, of course, is a long time favourite with Irish claret lovers and we like to think that we have some proprietorial interest in it, given that M Lynch originally hailed from Galway. The Cazes family have always been very proud of their link with Galway and Sylvie spent a year there as a language assistant in the university. Which makes it all the more baffling that when I visited the château some years ago, with a tour group I was leading, the young lady showing us around insisted that Lynch was a Scotsman! No amount of impassioned argument on our side could persuade her otherwise.
Notwithstanding that, the wine remains a Pauillac benchmark, as a delicious bottle of the 1996 drunk recently demonstrated. It was still stern at 15 years of age but not forbidding, with ample depth of rich fruit that gave promise of more development and improvement for at least another decade, if not two.
When I met her recently in Bordeaux she seemed unfazed by the multiplicity of roles she now fills (she also has a role in the running of the Cazes family châteaux, Lynch-Bages and Les Ormes-de-Pez). Far from it. Instead, she paid tribute to the strong team that she can rely on in each job.
Lynch-Bages, of course, is a long time favourite with Irish claret lovers and we like to think that we have some proprietorial interest in it, given that M Lynch originally hailed from Galway. The Cazes family have always been very proud of their link with Galway and Sylvie spent a year there as a language assistant in the university. Which makes it all the more baffling that when I visited the château some years ago, with a tour group I was leading, the young lady showing us around insisted that Lynch was a Scotsman! No amount of impassioned argument on our side could persuade her otherwise.
Notwithstanding that, the wine remains a Pauillac benchmark, as a delicious bottle of the 1996 drunk recently demonstrated. It was still stern at 15 years of age but not forbidding, with ample depth of rich fruit that gave promise of more development and improvement for at least another decade, if not two.
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