Karen MacNeil's video: People to Know: Sylvie Cazes

Sylvie Cazes is President of Bordeaux’s “Foundation for the Culture and Civilizations of Wine.” The foundations runs its showplace museum, la Cité du Vin, a living monument to the history of the world’s wine culture. Sylvie is an active member of the French winemaking family that owns the famous Grand Cru Classé property Château Lynch-Bages on Bordeaux’s Left Bank. She was the President of the estate’s Board of Directors for many years, the first female President of the prestigious Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux, and the former Director of Château Pichon Lalande—another Grand Cru Classé property in Bordeaux. Cazes has been a tireless ambassador of French wines for many years, and today is the proprietor of Château Chauvin in the Medoc, the famous Michelin-starred restaurant Le Chapon Fin, and a luxury wine tourism agency, Bordeaux Saveurs. In 2010, Cazes was named “Woman of the Year” by the U.K-based magazine Drinks Business. . . Subscribe to the best free newsletter on wine, WineSpeed http://bit.ly/WineSpeedSubscribe . . Check out more about Karen MacNeil by visiting her website http://bit.ly/KarenMacNeil . . The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil. It's the best-selling wine book in the U.S. Buy it here! http://bit.ly/thewinebible