Aubert de Villaine
Aubert Gaudin de Villaine (born February 8, 1939 in Rennes ), a French winemaker , co-owner of the world-famous Domaine de la Romanée-Conti winery in Burgundy and an active partner as a representative of the Villaine family under the two owner families de Villaine and Leroy .
Together with the winemaker Lalou Bize-Leroy from the Leroy family, de Villaine worked to ensure that the wines of the DRC are among the most sought-after and most expensive wines in the world .
After a series of disputes and disputes, Bize-Leroy left as a co-owner and active winemaker. Bize-Leroy's dissatisfaction with de Villaine's participation in a tasting became known among other reasons . The aim of this tasting, known as the “ Paris Wine Jury ”, was to evaluate the classic French wines against the emerging high-class Californian wines.
Aubert de Villaine and his wife Pamela F. de Villaine also hold shares in the Californian winery Hyde de Villaine , which is located in the Carneros area not far from Napa . With the Domaine A. & P. De Villaine in Bouzeron , he runs a winery that is dedicated to the Aligoté grape variety . Between March 2001 and March 2008 he was Mayor of Bouzeron.
In June 2009, the 70-year-old Aubert and his nephew Bertrand de Villaine presented his future successor as head of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Bertrand de Villaine previously headed several optician shops in Dijon and Chalon-sur-Saône .
credentials
- ↑ Interview with Aubert de Villaine ( Memento from March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.2 MB)
- ^ G. Taber The Judgment of Paris: California vs France page 217 Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-7432-4751-5
- ↑ Internet presence of the Hyde de Villaine winery. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
- ↑ La revue du vin de France , September / 2009, p. 14.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villaine, Aubert de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Villaine, Aubert Gaudin de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French winemaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rennes |