The brand Edmond de Rothschild Heritage combines the non-banking lifestyle assets (wine, hotels, restaurants, farming) of the

Edmond de Rothschild Group The Edmond de Rothschild Group is a financial institution specialized in private banking and asset management. Based in Geneva, the group is family-owned and independent, and encompasses the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations (philanthropic arm), ...

. The brand's origins date back to the creation in 1920 of the Société Française des Hôtels de Montagne (SFHM) by Baroness Noémie de Rothschild to develop a ski station in Megève ( French Alps). The SFHM branched into winemaking, hospitality, food service and production starting in the 1970s, a portfolio of lifestyle assets that were combined in the brand Edmond de Rothschild Heritage in 2016. Alexis de La Palme has been Chairman of the Board since 2015.

History

After World War I, Noémie de Rothschild (1888-1968) sent her ski instructor Trygve Smith to find a ski spot in the French Alps to compete with

St. Moritz St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in ...

(

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

). Due to its slope meadows, views of the Mont Blanc, and easy access from Geneva, he recommended Megève. Noémie de Rothschild and her husband Baron Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957) founded the Société Française des Hôtels de Montagne (SFHM) and built the "Palace des Neiges" hotel in Megève. King

Albert I of Belgium Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) was King of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 until his death in 1934. Born in Brussels as the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-S ...

was among the first visitors of the resort. In 1926, Noémie de Rothschild commissioned the architect

Henry Jacques Le Même Henry Jacques Le Même (17 October 1897, Nantes – 17 February 1997) was a French architect. He designed a second chalet at Domaine du Mont d'Arbois The Domaine du Mont d'Arbois is a historic luxury hotel in Mont d'Arbois near Megève, Ha ...

to build her private chalet in Megève. He designed the Chalet du Mont d'Arbois, the first snow-mountain chalet of modern times. In 1963, Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1926-1997), son of Noémie de Rothschild, took over the management of the family properties in Megève. He bought the neighboring chalets and transformed the Chalet du Mont d'Arbois into a hotel. The Rothschild family has been associated with wines since Nathaniel de Rothschild acquired the

Château Mouton A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions. Nowaday ...

in 1853 and James Mayer de Rothschild acquired the

Château Lafite A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions. Nowaday ...

in 1868.Adam Montefiore
Wine Talk: Maintaining and building a legacy
''Jpost.com'', 29 August 2018 In 1973, Edmond de Rothschild purchased the winery

Château Clarke Château Clarke is a wine property of Bordeaux of based in the Listrac-Médoc AOC and classified as Cru Bourgeois. History In the 12th century, the Cistercian monks of the Vertheuil Abbey established the first grapevine. The estate would perma ...

(and Château Malmaison) in the

Médoc The Médoc (; oc, label= Gascon, Medòc ) is a region of France, well known as a wine growing region, located in the ''département'' of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary, north of Bordeaux. Its name comes from ''(Pagus) Medull ...

in France and renovated it, releasing the domain's first bottle in 1978. In 1990, Edmond de Rothschild launched a cheese-production farm in his family estate in France (Ferme des Trente Arpents) to produce the cheese AOC Brie de Meaux. In 1997, the company acquired the Friedrickburg Estate in Franschhoek ( South Africa) with the

Rupert family The Rupert family is a family from Stellenbosch, South Africa. Anton Rupert (4 October 1916 – 18 January 2006) and his wife Huberte Rupert (3 December 1919 – 28 October 2005) moved to a home in Thibault Street on the northern banks of ...

to create the Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons vineyard. In 1998, following the passing of Edmond de Rothschild, his son Benjamin de Rothschild (1963-2021) and his wife Ariane de Rothschild took over the management of the SFHM. The same year, along with other investors (including

Laurent Dassault Laurent Dassault is a French billionaire businessman, and the co-managing director of Dassault Group, founded by his grandfather, Marcel Dassault Marcel Dassault (born Marcel Ferdinand Bloch; 23 January 1892 – 17 April 1986) was a Frenc ...

), they founded the Clos de los Siete in the

Uco Valley Valle de Uco is a viticultural region southwest of Mendoza, in Argentina. Situated along the Tunuyán River, the Uco Valley is widely considered one of the top wine regions in Mendoza, and all of Argentina. The annual average temperature is a ...

( Argentina) to produce the wine Flechas de los Andes. They then acquired the

Château des Laurets Château des Laurets is a wine estate in Bordeaux. History Purchased by Benjamin and Ariane de Rothschild in 2003, the estate stretch on 86 hectares with two appellations: Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion and Montagne-Saint-Émilion. Soil The vineya ...

and Château de Malengin in Saint-Émilion (France) in 2003, and participated in the creation of the Champagne Barons de Rothschild in association with other members of the

Rothschild family The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of F ...

. In 2012, 24 hectares of Malborough Vineyards ( New Zealand) were purchased to produce the Rimapere wine. In 2016, the brand Edmond de Rothschild Heritage was created to combine all the lifestyle assets of the Edmond de Rothschild Group developed since the foundation of the SFHM in 1920. In 2018, Edmond de Rothschild Heritage inaugurated a 5-star ski hotel and resort in Megève branded

Four Seasons The Four Seasons, originally referring to the traditional seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter (typical of a temperate climate), may refer to: Music * ''The Four Seasons'' (Vivaldi), a 1725 set of four violin concertos by Antonio Viv ...

. The company expanded in Spain with the launch, along with Vega Sicilia, of the winery Bodegas Benjamin de Rothschild Y Vega Sicilia - Macán in La Rioja in 2017 and the opening of the hotel Palacio de Samaniego in Rioja Alavesa in 2021. In 2022, Heritage bought the New Zealand winery Akarua in the Central Otago wine region.

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Edmond de Rothschild Heritage combines the non-banking lifestyle assets owned by the

, including wine, hospitality, restaurants and farming. The wineries owned by Edmond de Rothschild Heritage produce 3.5 million bottles of wine every year. Edmond de Rothschild Heritage owns 250 Holstein cows for the production of Brie de Meaux Fermier AOC in Seine-et-Marne, France, and produces honey, terrine, jam and other farm products.

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