Mouton's Departing Master

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Per-Henrik Mansson
Issue: March 31, 2005

For the nearly two decades prior to his retirement at the close of 2003, Patrick Léon, 61, carried a heavy burden as head winemaker of first-growth Château Mouton-Rothschild and the Mouton group's many other wines, totaling nearly 2 million cases per year.

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