Château Haut Rian, France
Michel Dietrich and his wife Isabelle hail, respectively, from Alsace and Champagne. Shy but enormously generous and kind, I was recently fortunate to spend an entire weekend with the couple in Bordeaux enjoying their amazing hospitality. A large estate of 80 hectares, Haut Rian sweeps up the bluffs from the appellation Premières Côtes de Bordeaux inland to Entre- Deux Mers, even touching into Cadillac. Michel studied winemaking in Burgundy and Bordeaux before the couple left to spend several years between 1981 and 1987 broadening their horizons in Australia, where Michel worked as director and oenlogist for Rémy Martin Vineyards, before returning to France to purchase Château Haut Rian in 1988. Vineyards are all south to southeast, with gravelly limestone soils.
Michel Dietrich and his wife Isabelle hail, respectively, from Alsace and Champagne. Shy but enormously generous and kind, I was recently fortunate to spend an entire weekend with the couple in Bordeaux enjoying their amazing hospitality. A large estate of 80 hectares, Haut Rian sweeps up the bluffs from the appellation Premières Côtes de Bordeaux inland to Entre- Deux Mers, even touching into Cadillac. Michel studied winemaking in Burgundy and Bordeaux before the couple left to spend several years between 1981 and 1987 broadening their horizons in Australia, where Michel worked as director and oenlogist for Rémy Martin Vineyards, before returning to France to purchase Château Haut Rian in 1988. Vineyards are all south to southeast, with gravelly limestone soils.