The owner of the Burgundy top vineyard Domaine Leroy with its Négociant Maison Leroy has explicitly denied possible intentions to sell. In an email to Jancis Robinson MW, the owner Lalou Bize-Leroy wrote: "In connection with the rumours on the net, we declare that neither the domain nor Maison Leroy is for sale."
According to several posts in social media, the French luxury conglomerate LVMH was named as the buyer. The purchase price should therefore be a record sum.
The Domaine Leroy, formerly co-owner of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, is considered a model biodynamic farm in Burgundy and one of the best Burgundy wineries.
The reason for the rumours could be the age of the dynamic owner: Lalou Bize-Leroy is in her mid-eighties, a succession plan for the winery is not known.
(uka)