Category: Négociants en Vins

Categories: Négociants

According to Wikipedia, A négociant is the French term for a wine merchant who assembles the produce of smaller growers and winemakers and sells the result under its own name. Négociants buy everything from grapes to grape must to wines in various states of completion. In the case of grapes or must, the négociant performs virtually all the winemaking. If it buys already fermented wine in barrels or 'en-vrac'—basically in bulk containers, it may age the wine further, blend in other wines or simply bottle and sell it as is. The result is sold under the name of the négociant, not the name of the original grape or wine producer.

Négociants, who are also called Wine Merchants/Traders, were the dominant force in the wine trade until the last 25 years for various reasons:

• Historically the owners of vineyards and producers of wine had no direct access to buyers.
• It was too expensive for growers to purchase the wine presses and bottling lines necessary to produce a finished wine.
• Owning only a small portion of a particular high-quality single vineyard (lieu-dit) meant that a grower often had insufficient wine from a parcel to vinify on its own. Under French inheritance laws, vineyard holdings were often split until offspring owned no more than a single row of grapes, not enough to fill a barrel. Since prices for a premier cru (first growth) are typically higher than for wines from a larger area like a village or region, the grower could make more money selling off the production as the premier cru rather than blending it into a less specific appellation.

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Joseph Beardmore 1840 Liscard, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom - 04 Mar 1903

Theodore Blanchard 30 May 1821 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States - 17 Apr 1892

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Richard Child 08 Jun 1801 Streatley, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom - 19 Jun 1882

Victor Child 16 May 1887 Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 1946

Richard Cossins 06 Oct 1823 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom - 06 Jun 1898

Arthur Crane 16 Nov 1861 Liverpool, Lancashire, England - 16 Jul 1926

John Crane 22 Aug 1854 West Derby, Lancashire, England - 27 Jan 1933

John Crane bef 28 May 1833 Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire, England - bef 1891

Richard Crane 06 Feb 1852 West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, England - 1884

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Edward Fitzgerald abt 1890 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States - 06 Jul 1946

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Arthur Gore 02 Jan 1868 Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 01 Dec 1928

Charles Gray 08 Jul 1848 Bombay, India - 17 Sep 1911

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Patrick Hall abt 1823 Ireland - 10 Aug 1905

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Charles Heidsieck 16 May 1822 Reims, Marne, France - 03 Feb 1893

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Hermanus Cornelis Luitingh 10 Oct 1861 Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands - 24 May 1938

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Samuel Mahood abt 1837

Marshall McKay abt 1798 Kilrea, County Londonderry, Ireland - 27 Oct 1860

George Morris 1834 Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - 08 Jan 1910

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John Newsam 28 Nov 1831 Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom - 28 Nov 1877

James Nicoll 21 Oct 1821 Kingston, Jamaica - 28 Jul 1885

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Thomas Oliver 01 Apr 1872 Cahore, Ballynascreen, Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Ireland - 1959

Aaron Orme 19 Sep 1839 Congleton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom - 05 Jun 1907

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Henry Price 22 Jan 1849 Kopuya, South Australia - 22 Aug 1895

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Abraham Reist 18 Feb 1826 Warwick Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States - 18 Dec 1882

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Lewis Sandeman 06 May 1882 Ladhope, Roxburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 07 Jul 1967

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Franz Scheibenpflug 01 Dec 1767 Höbenbach, Krems, Lower Austria, Austria - 02 Oct 1840

Francis Sharman 20 Oct 1835 Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

Henry Sirr abt 25 Nov 1764 County Dublin, Ireland - 07 Jan 1841

William Smith bef 29 May 1785 Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England

IJsbrand Hendrik Francois Vincent Staal 09 Jul 1861 Nijehaske, Friesland, Nederland - 11 May 1924

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Henry Twelves 25 Sep 1858 Corfu, Greece - 13 Dec 1931

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Francis Watson 01 Aug 1876 Dulwich, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 12 May 1958

Henry Watson 28 May 1851 Southwark, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 14 Feb 1896

Henry Watson 01 Feb 1819 Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 15 Jan 1893

Henry Wellburn 02 Oct 1842 Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - 05 Sep 1876

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