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Since 1868, when Baron James de Rothschild, head of the German banking dynasty’s French branch, purchased the vineyard, Château Lafite Rothschild has been run by six generations of the Rothschild family. Until 2018, all of them were men. That’s when Saskia de Rothschild, now 33, became the youngest head of a first-growth Bordeaux estate and the first female chairwoman of Domaines Barons de Rothschild.
Although she had tended to the vines over the years and always helped to blend the annual vintage, de Rothschild’s career aspirations were not in wine, but investigative journalism. When her father, Baron Éric,