One day in June, a tall, clean-cut 30-year-old, wearing shorts and Loro Piana loafers, ambled into La Guerite, one of the most exclusive restaurants in one of the most exclusive towns in France. Tables here are so coveted that even the wealthiest of its clientele book weeks in advance and have to wait in line under the sweltering sun to make the short crossing to the tiny Mediterranean island off the coast of Cannes where it is located. But the young man strolled straight to the front of the queue, onto the first available boat and onwards to his usual table at the restaurant.
Christopher Eppinger has been a regular since soon after he bought a €7 million ($12.5 million) villa in the hills on the mainland. On one of the whitewashed walls near where he was sitting, a solitary bronze plaque read: “Christopher Eppinger. The Legend of La Guerite. 300 bottles of Cristal, June 13, 2024”. It commemorated Eppinger’s 30th birthday, which was held on the terrace here a year earlier.
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Financial Times
