May eliane lencquesaing biography of michael

French winemaker

May-Éliane de Lencquesaing (born circa )^[1] is a French winemaker, for over 30 years the owner and managing director of the PauillacwineryChâteau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande.^[2][3] She supervised the and productions, regarded historically among the terroir’s finest vintages.^[1]

Upon the division of the estate in she inherited the family shares and acquired the remainder, and over the years of running Pichon Comtesse, has come to be viewed as an ambassador of Bordeaux wine.^[4][5] In , May-Eliane de Lencquesaing was selected as "Woman of the Year" by the wine magazine Decanter.

Madame de Lenquesaing is a collector of more than 1, pieces of rare glass, dating from the Roman era (50 B.C.E.) and spanning nearly two millennia of production in