Baron Philippe de Rothschild was not the kind of man who acknowledged limitations. Mouton had been in his family for three generations, but the banking family basically ignored its provincial estate.

The painting was looted from Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1940 and memorialized in an iconic photograph.

Eric de Rothschild loved visiting his family's Bordeaux estate with friends when he was in his twenties. They had fun and they drank a lot of wine—not bad, when the winery is first-growth Château ...