Claude Lada is a French photographer and publisher specialized in wine books. Founder of Agence Class in 1990, he published a first «Guide Chinois des Vins de Bordeaux» (2009, second edition in 2012), as well as a book about matching «Chinese cooking and French wines» (for the Universal Exhibition in Shanghai, in 2010), the «Guide Chinois des Vins de France» (preface by the former Prime Minister of France, Jean- Pierre Raffarin, 2011), and the «Guide Chinois du Cognac» (2012). Under licence since 2013,  from Larousse, Claude Lada also published the traditional Chinese version of the Le Grand Larousse du Vin «윗魯薑 팥境아겟옰홍書». He created the trilingual magazine Bordeaux News, regularly published since 1993. He is the author of a Russian guide to Cognac, «COGNAC И ЕГО ТАЙНЫ» (2014) and a North American version «COGNAC FOR CONNOISSEUR» (2015);  in the same time he publish «BORDEAUX NEW CENTURY» a new pocket book with some of the most dynamics winegrowers from Bordeaux.

Claude Lada is an associate member of WSWA.