The Glenelly wine is described as “embodying the precision, power, and elegance that define” the legendary May’s approach to wine and her legacy of “100 Years of grit and grandeur”, which included 30 years at the helm of Pauillac winery Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande.
“More than just a vintage, it is a tribute to a lifetime dedicated to the pursuit of excellence,” the company said.
The daughter of Edouard Miailhe, May de Lencquesaing was born in 1925, into one of Bordeaux’s most established wine families, whose ties to the trade stretched back to the 18th century. However, despite her father and uncle’s ownership and shares in some of the Médoc’s most notable estates, including Châteaux Pichon Lalande, Palmer (which they bought in the 1930s), Siran, Dauzac, and Coufran, Bordeaux in the 1930s was a region in crisis, having been crippled by the Great Depression, with “legendary vintages like 1928 and 1929 [reduced] to a fraction of their true worth”.
Within ten years, Bordeaux was under Nazi occupation, but the family’s resistance led them to shelter two Jewish families at Château Palmer. When the estate was later seized by German forces, Edouard and his brother undertaking a high-risk escape to Argentina via Bayonne to Argentina, when de Lencquesaing was a teenager.
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