Aubert de Villaine

Aubert de Villaine Gaudin ( born February 8, 1939 in Rennes), a French winemaker, co-owner of the world famous winery Domaine de la Romanée -Conti in Burgundy and active partner as representative of the Villaine family under the two owner families de Villaine and Leroy.

Together with the winemaker Lalou Bize- Leroy Leroy from the family had de Villaine out that the wines of the DRC are among the most sought after and expensive wines in the world.

After a series of disputes or litigation Bize- Leroy resigned as co-owner and winemaker active. Among other reasons, the dissatisfaction Bize- Leroy on de Villa Ines involvement in a tasting was known. This "Wine jury of Paris " tasting had become known to evaluate the goal of the classic French wines against the emerging high-class Californian wines

Aubert de Villaine holds with his wife Pamela F. de Villaine also shares in the Californian wine Hyde de Villaine, situated in the territory of Carneros far from Napa. With the Domaine A. & P. de Villaine in Bouzeron he runs a vineyard, which is dedicated to the grape variety Aligoté. Between March 2001 and March 2008, he was mayor of Bouzeron.

In June 2009, the 70 -year-old Aubert presented with his nephew, Bertrand de Villaine his future successor as head of the Domaine de la Romanée -Conti .. before Bertrand de Villaine was previously before some opticians' shops in Dijon and Chalon -sur -Saône.

Credentials

• Entrepreneurs ( viticulture)
• Frenchman
• Born in 1939
• Man