Lichine Alexis

Born in Russia, Alexis Lichine (1913-1989) left his homeland with his family before the revolution and grew up in France. After the American Prohibition (1920-1933), he worked in the USA for a few years in the 1930s for the wine importer and journalist Frank Schoonmaker (1905-1976). After the Second World War, he returned to France and became involved in the wine trade, mainly selling German and French wines to America.

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In the 1950s, he founded a wine trading company in the USA and only sold producer bottlings from large and important wineries. He sold this in 1964, began to grow wine himself and wrote books - the first was "The Wines of France". It was a great success, as was the second work "Alexis Lichine's Encyclopedia of Wines and Spirits". In 1951, he bought Château Prieuré in the Médoc and named it Château Prieuré-Lichine. A year later, he also bought Château Lascombes in Margaux (Médoc, Bordeaux), which he managed until it was sold in 1971.

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