Decanter World Wine Awards
Chateau Margaux unveils Do-Chi-Nam as Bascaules replacement
- Thursday 9 June 2011
Philippe Bascaules will be leaving in September, after 11 years at Chateau Margaux, to begin his new role with Francis Ford Coppola at Inglenook Vineyard in California.
Dô-Chi-Nam will take over Bascaules’ role as Directeur d’Exploitation – estate manager and technical director – at the end of this year, after he has completed the 2011 harvest with Chateau Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse de Lalande.
Director of Chateau Margaux, Paul Pontallier, told Decanter.com, ‘Thomas is not only talented and highly qualified, with a depth of experience of the greatest wines of Bordeaux, but is also a loyal and extremely nice man who will integrate perfectly into the culture of Margaux.’
Have your say!
Hervé LALAU
June 12 10:18
Imagine Pontalier saying "we hired him because we find him nasty and incompetent..."
Not a word of thanks to Bascaules, though. That's tough in the lovely world of Crus Classés.
winewe
June 11 11:08
guy change,style change/
will it?
Panos Kakaviatos
June 10 09:31
He is a very talented winemaker and indeed a very nice man. I had the pleasure of taking part in a double vertical (Baron and Comtesse) in New York last year, and Thomas participated, bringing a couple of bottle of Pichon Comtesse 1982. Here a link to that dinner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQ4-J5B5lQ. Good luck to him at Margaux.