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 ...

Who else could have rewritten the supposedly unalterable 1855 Classification of Bordeaux to join the select inner circle of first-growths? Baron Philippe de Rothschild was not the kind of man who ...

The Swiss branch of the sprawling Rothschild banking dynasty – once one of the world’s richest families – was created by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, whose parents fled to Switzerland during ...