Domaine Leroy, Nuits-Saint-Georges aux Boudots, 2014

“There is no winemaking and no winemaker in Burgundy! We are guardians. We watch, we observe, we make some decisions but it is the grapes that come first - they guide us. Our job is to look, observe and try to understand." - Madame Lalou Bize-Leroy, in an interview in 2017 with Forbes.

Madame Lalou Bize-Leroy has been widely known for years as the "Queen of Burgundy" and one of the most powerful women in wine. Today, she is behind the most expensive red wine sold in the world, as well as white wines that bring tears of joy to even the greatest wine lovers, if you are lucky enough to even get close to her almost legendary wines. At 90 years old (born 3 March 1932), Madame Lalou Bize-Leroy is indeed a living legend, and she is still active both in the vineyards and on the estate.

Every year in January, the English wine exchange, Liv-Ex, publishes a list of the 100 most powerful brands in the world of wine. The Liv-ex Power 100 list for 2021 is topped for the second time in a row by none other than Domaine Leroy, which is yet another testimony that Madame Leroy is by far the most powerful woman in the world of wine. In 2019, Domaine Leroy was to be found in 3rd place, and in addition, it is now the 4th year in a row that Domaine Leroy is to be found in the top 5 on the Liv-ex Power 100 list.

Among the criteria on which the list is based include year-on-year price development, trade value, trade activity, number of wines, number of vintages, and average price across all wines from the producer in question.