Thomas Duroux CEO Château Palmer 3ème Grand Cru Classé Margaux Presentation  Gerda: What are the main challenges you face? Thomas Duroux: There are many. The first is running a company with 80 employees in many different fields: viticulture, finance, sales, hospitality, communications, etc. If I focus on a few specific points, I would mention production, […]

Sandrine Garbay Managing Director ~  Château Guiraud Premier Cru Classé Barsac Sauternes Gerda: You’re in charge of the estates owned by Matthieu Gufflet — Château Callac, Château des Bachelards, and Domaine Les Aurelles — but as Managing Director of Château Guiraud, what are the main challenges you face? Sandrine Garbay: I’m in charge of production, which is at […]

🎧We are offering the Inside in an audio file🎧 Reflected Views Part 3 ~ Château Pichon Longueville  Comtesse de Lalande ~ with Nicolas Glumineau, Bernard Burtschy & Gerda Beziade FIJEV Wine Talk Wine Paris 2025 Gerda: At Wine Paris, you did a conference on wine communication in the XXIᵉ century. How do you attract the new generation to […]

🎧We are offering the Inside in an audio file🎧 ~ Bernard Burtschy Wine journalist ~ President of the Wine Press Association Data mining specialist Gerda: Could you tell us a little about yourself? Bernard Burtschy: I have two careers. One is in wine, where I’ve been working for almost 40 years. I joined the Revue […]

🎧We are offering the Inside in an audio file🎧 Nicolas Glumineau General Manager & Winemaker ~ Château Pichon Comtesse de Lalande 2ème Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Gerda: Could you say a few words about the 2024 vintage? Nicolas Glumineau: To speak of 2024 is to evoke a record year in terms of rainfall. For some […]

Vintage 2024🍷 : A Constant Battle ” There is no success without hardship.” Jean Giono (French writer, 1895–1970) 📌 Commercial Campaign Schedule After welcoming many of you in Bordeaux this week, from April 14 to 18, we will take a short break on Monday, April 21st, which is a public holiday in France (Easter Monday). […]

Cyprien Champanhet Head of Sales, Marketing & Communication Château Haut-Bailly   Grand Cru Classé   Pessac-Léognan Thanks to a mutual friend, I met Cyprien Champanhet as soon as he arrived in Bordeaux. Our conversations quickly convinced me of his potential, to the point where I introduced him to Véronique Sanders, the president of Château Haut-Bailly. I […]

Vincenzo D’Andrea Sales Director Château Lascombes Margaux  2ème Grand Cru Classé 1855 Gerda: You arrived in Bordeaux in February 2025. Is the commercial challenge of a Cru Classé like Lascombes the same as that of Bibi Graetz, where you recently worked? Vincenzo d’Andrea: The global context is exactly the same, and we address the same customers […]