“He had lots of offers and he turned them down,” says Emma. Since he was 16, he’d worked in pubs and restaurants: “I fell in love with hospitality.” Rather than walking the catwalks of Paris and Milan, Alex took a first in philosophy at Bristol, but academia didn’t appeal as a career either. He signed with a modelling agency, but he didn’t enjoy it. “I was being pushed towards modelling or acting,” he says. I’ve literally picked the grapes myselfĪs the younger brother of a movie star, plenty of opportunities came his way. But I can vouch for Alex, I know who he is. But Chris’s real passions are for game fishing, music and wine-making – and wine-drinking. As well as French, Watson speaks German, Spanish, Italian, and his Russian is good enough to decode complicated legal documents. And, in its way, a very modern one: the grape skins are organic and the gin is certified carbon-neutral.Ĭhris Watson, 65, is a high-flying City lawyer, a partner in a large international law firm, with a focus on communications law. Flavoured by the skins of grapes handpicked in the steepest, most prestigious grand cru vineyards of Chablis, it is, in Alex’s description, “quite an esoteric product”. “I like the rituals around it and the history and the connection with the people here” © Rich StapletonĪt least partly a tribute to Chris, and to the land – the terroir – that the Watsons love, Renais will go on sale for the first time today, initially in the UK. “What I really love is the culture here of the harvest,” says Emma.
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