Jean Claude Boisset
Jean-Claude Boisset started trading in a few wines as a young man of eighteen. Three years later he bought his first piece of vineyard land, Gevrey Chambertin Les Evocelles, though it needed planting and clearing. These vines today form part of Domaine de la Vougeraie. Meanwhile the merchant size of the business kept growing at an astonishing pace, to the extent that Maison Jean-Claude Boisset became the first Burgundy negociant to be listed on the stock exchange in 1985.
There have been forays into wine businesses in other parts of the world, notably California and Canada, with son Jean-Charles Boisset and daughter Nathalie-Berges-Boisset increasingly at the helm.
Over the decades Boisset has taken over a host of other Burggundian businesses which have failed to be as competitive as the new kid on the block. The most recent purchase, Antonin Rodet, was completed in September 2009.
Various of these acquisitions brought with them vineyard holdings which were amalgamated in 1999 with the Boisset family vineyards known at that point as the Domaine Claudine Deschamps, based in Prémeaux just south of Nuits St Georges. The new domaine was christened Domaine de la Vougeraie, details of which are described below.
Wines under the Jean-Claude Boisset negociant label used to be dismissed as being of modest quality, suited to the needs of large scale and price conscious distribution, but a change in philosophy and the appointment of Grégory Patriat as winemaker in 2002 have brought these wines into the main stream of high quality products.
There have been forays into wine businesses in other parts of the world, notably California and Canada, with son Jean-Charles Boisset and daughter Nathalie-Berges-Boisset increasingly at the helm.
Over the decades Boisset has taken over a host of other Burggundian businesses which have failed to be as competitive as the new kid on the block. The most recent purchase, Antonin Rodet, was completed in September 2009.
Various of these acquisitions brought with them vineyard holdings which were amalgamated in 1999 with the Boisset family vineyards known at that point as the Domaine Claudine Deschamps, based in Prémeaux just south of Nuits St Georges. The new domaine was christened Domaine de la Vougeraie, details of which are described below.
Wines under the Jean-Claude Boisset negociant label used to be dismissed as being of modest quality, suited to the needs of large scale and price conscious distribution, but a change in philosophy and the appointment of Grégory Patriat as winemaker in 2002 have brought these wines into the main stream of high quality products.
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