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Chateau La Lagune

Built in 1715, the Chateau La Lagune is more than one of the most illustrious wine estates in Bordeaux. It also has a notable history of dynamic women winemakers. In 1964, Madame Jeanne Boyle became estate manager of this venerable property and took decisive action. She replanted the entire vineyard so that the rows would be spaced at a distance that would insure higher quality. She also earned recognition as the first woman cellar master in Bordeaux.

Today the wines are made by

Caroline Frey, Winemaker

2000's

Women and Wine - the passion continues

Peggy Fleming: Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming, with her husband, Greg Jenkins, owns the Fleming-Jenkins Vineyard in Santa Cruz, CA. , producing Victories Rosé. The profit from sales of their Victories Rosé go to cancer research.

Jane Wilson. Jane is the winemaker from Lowe Winery in Australia. She has a clear idea about the wine she likes. She has a passion for complex reds. Her wines are award winning wines world renown wines.

Virginie Bourgue. Winemaker Bergevin Lane Vineyards Winemaker. Before coming to the United States from France, Virginie earned an undergraduate degree in viticulture and a Masters Degree in enology in France. She also acquired hands-on experience working at Bollinger, Roederer, and Nicolas Feuillatte in the Cote du Rhone, Loire Valley and Champagne regions of France.

Stellenbosh Leads the Way. Stellenbosh has more women winemakers than any winery in the world. Stellenbosch winemakers have won the SA Woman Winemaker of the Year twice:

Debbie Burden in 2005from Simonsig came away with the laurels,

Eleanor Visser of Spier’s won last year’s trophy

from left to right): Lauren Caine (Meerlust) Jill Lackay (Spier); Kim Hendricks (Vergenoegd); IsabelKhowa (Company of Wine People); Anchen Barnard (StellenboschHills).

Paz Espejo, Cordier's chief winemaker, Madrid-born and a graduate from Bordeaux in enology, still finds that the level of responsibility delegated to males in the wine industry is higher than for women. "I really think that female sensitivity and capacity for wine appreciation and perception is different than male ones. That is why I really believe that a woman can 'connect' and speak about what she feels better than a man when she is communicating with other women."

Sally Johnson, winemaker for Pride Mountain Vineyards. She says many of the women who graduated with her from the famous Viticulture and Enology Department at the University of California at Davis are accomplished winemakers today.

Mia Klein, owner and winemaker Selene. She began this label with the intension of producing distinctive wines from single vineyard locations and has been successful in doing just that. After an internship at Chappellet Vineyard and earning her Enology degree from UC Davis.

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