剛收到 Eric d’Aramon 的電郵，得悉 Chateau Figeac 老莊主 Thierry Manoncourt 逝世的消息。當你看過他簡短的自傳，就會知道他對酒莊以至整個波爾多貢獻有多大了。 Thierry Manoncourt - in his own words The story of a life dedicated to innovation (Text of a presentation, probably written in 2009) My life as a winemaker came about by chance, nothing in my family background predestined me to this: my great-grandfather built the railway line between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, my paternal grandfather was in import-export in Egypt during the building of the Suez Canal, my other grandfather was Director at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris in the beginning of the 20th century, and my father made scales for Marie Curie when she was researching radioactivity. My maternal grandparents lived near Paris, in Neuilly, and they bought Château de Figeac in 1892. They had thrice refused an offer to purchase the estate since they had no intention of living there; when they decided to buy it was simply as a real estate investment, since it made little sense to ...
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