From the beginning his vision was for Waddesdon to be the mecca of Rothschild wine in the UK. There was no wine cellar, so he set about creating one to house his own 15,000 bottles of Lafite and ...

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 ...