Lichine Alexis

The native Russian 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 in the 1930s for a few years for the wine importer and journalist Frank Schoonmaker Frank (1905-1976). After World War II (1939-1945), he returned to France and engaged in wine trade. He mainly sold German and French wines to the USA. Lichine played a significant role in making French wines popular in the USA.

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In the 1950s, he founded a wine trading company in the USA and only distributed producer bottling of large and significant wine estates. He sold this in 1964, began to cultivate wine himself, and wrote books on the subject of wine. These included among others, "The Wines of France", "Wines & Vineyards of France", and "Encyclopedia of Wines and Spirits". In 1951, he purchased the Château Prieuré in Médoc and renamed it Château Prieuré-Lichine. A year later, he also bought the Château Lascombes in Margaux, which he managed until its sale in 1971. Lichine also created a unified system for the many Bordeaux classification, which was never realized.

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