Wine at Waddesdon

Waddesdon Manor has the privilege of being the centre of Rothschild wines in the UK, a wine portfolio that contains over 29 active estates spanning six continents. Waddesdon Manor offers the largest selection of Rothschild wines under one roof globally, with its wine cellars boasting the largest collection of Château Lafite Rothschild outside of the renowned château in Bordeaux.

The relationship between Waddesdon and wine continues to flourish as Waddesdon represents several other prestigious family-owned estates around the world. Each of these estates shares a vision of producing the finest wines while remaining family-run and true to their heritage and traditions.

Since its creation in the late nineteenth century, this French Renaissance-style château in the heart of Buckinghamshire has maintained a legacy of providing hospitality and pleasure to all who visit. This tradition continues today with regular world-class tasting events, dinners and our shop where you can find wines to suit any occasion.

Domaines Barons de Rothschild Lafite

At the heart of the Domaines Barons de Rothschild Lafite Group lies the illustrious Château Lafite Rothschild, purchased by James de Rothschild in 1868. Lafite has cultivated a tradition of winegrowing practices and expertise over six generations, referred to as the ‘Lafite Spirit’. This expertise and attention to detail has continued to guide the production of high quality wines with finesse and elegance across the Group’s properties for the past century and a half.

It is this pioneering ‘Lafite Spirit’, based on a rich past and tradition rooted in the soils of Bordeaux, that has led the Group to open up to the world, establishing vineyards in new regions and producing new, high quality wines.

Beyond the Bordeaux properties of Château Duhart-Milon, Château Rieussec and Château L’Evangile, the Group today also counts the prestigious wineries of Viña Los Vascos (Chile, 1988), Domaine d’Aussières (Corbières, 1999), Bodegas Caro (Argentina, 1999), Domaine de Long Dai, (China, 2018) and most recently the acquisition Domaine William Fevre in Chablis among its collection.

James de Rothschild’s great-grandson, Edmond de Rothschild, began a new chapter in the family winegrowing adventure in 1973 by acquiring two Crus Bourgeois estates in the Listrac and Moulis-en-Médoc appellations of Bordeaux: Château Clarke and Château Malmaison.

Thus the Compagnie Vinicole Baron Edmond de Rothschild was born. In 1997, Benjamin & Ariane de Rothschild gave a dramatic boost to the Compagnie Vinicole by exploring new terroirs around the globe.

Determined to apply traditional French expertise while maintaining local winegrowing practices, they created joint-ventures with families that possessed the same entrepreneurial spirit and love of wine first in South Africa, then in Argentina and finally New-Zealand.

When Baron Nathaniel acquired Château Mouton Rothschild at auction in 1853, little did he know that he held in his hands the keys to the start of one of the world’s most respected Bordeaux wine brands.

Founded 80 years later in 1933, the Baron Philippe de Rothschild Group today manages an exquisite roster of estates and branded wines that expand far beyond its Bordeaux heart, maintaining the same dedication to excellence that has characterised the family’s winemaking style for generations.

It is a unique blend of respect for traditional know-how and adaptability that have ensured the continued quality and prestige of the Group’s wines. To this day it remains an entirely family affair, run by three siblings Camille Sereys de Rothschild, Philippe Sereys de Rothschild and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild, with a selling rate of 22 million bottles per year and ownership of 600 hectares of vines in France and abroad.

Driven for over two centuries by passion for business and the understanding that in unity there is strength, three branches of the Rothschild family came together in 2007, uniting the arrows on their family coat of arms to create Barons de Rothschild Champagne.

Just as in their famous Bordeaux wines, where the proximity of skilled wine experts and the best terroirs have been central to family values for over 160 years, the Rothschilds have succeeded once again in expressing their family values of excellence, taste and conviviality, but this time with sparkle and savour, in their rare and outstanding range of Grand Crus and Premier Crus Champagnes.

Since 1844, Penfolds has played a pivotal role in the evolution of wine making with a history and heritage that profoundly reflects Australia’s journey from colonial settlement to the modern era. Penfolds collection of benchmark wines were established in a spirit of innovation and the constant and endless pursuit of quality, evidenced from the secret bottling of Grange in 1951 and the unbroken line of vintages of what is now Australia’s most iconic wine.

Today, the collection continues to display the distinctive and consistently recognisable Penfolds ‘House Style’: the ultimate expression of their time-honoured tradition of sourcing the best fruit from the best regions. Historic blends, significant milestones and heritage vineyards have been honoured by a lineage of custodians whose courage and imagination, precision and humility have ensured Penfolds remains true to its original values while remaining relevant for current and future generations.