From Bordeaux to the Stars - The Reawakening of a Wine Legend

"...a quite remarkable book... For students of this period and for future historians, this will be essential reading." - World of Fine Wine

"This wide-ranging memoir of one of Bordeaux''s grandest fromages, who died in June aged 88, is full of history and anecdote." - Telegraph
Owner of Ch-au Lynch-Bages, Grand Cru Class-f Pauillac, Jean-Michel Cazes is an international figure in wine. He has contributed to bringing the Bordeaux vineyard into the modern day and bears witness to the upheavals in the wine world over the past 50 years.

After a golden age crowned by the 1855 classification which made Bordeaux crus the most famous wines in the world, the Bordeaux vineyards took time to integrate the changes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Jean-Michel Cazes witnessed the crisis of the 1970s which saw the aura of Bordeaux tarnish and the price of its wines collapse. He was a major player in their revival and their tireless