May eliane lencquesaing biography of william hill
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May eliane lencquesaing biography of william hill
A Sit Down with May-Eliane de Lencquesaing
Though she doesn’t come to the U.S. as often as she did during her heyday running Pauillac’s famed Château Pichon Longueville Lalande, May-Eliane de Lencquesaing still loves it when she does visit.
It’s a love born of a long time spent in Kansas, of all places, when her husband, a French military officer, was stationed at Fort Leavenworth for two stints, the first shortly after World War II and the second in the late 1960s and early '70s.
“We were in the middle of the country, but far from everything,” said de Lencquesaing, who stopped by the Wine Spectator office today.
“So we traveled when we could, often to Napa to visit wineries. Kansas was a dry state then, a disaster for us,” she added, with an infectious chuckle. “There we befriended Al Brounstein, Gil Nickel, Warren Winiarski and so many others who were developing California wine back then.”
That love of wine paid dividends, when de Lencquesaing was eventually asked by her fa