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French term for a merchant (see merchants) and one used particularly of wine merchants who buy in grapes, must, or wine, blend different lots of wine within an appellation, and bottle the result under their own label. Making a perfectly balanced blend from a number of imperfect parts is a potentially noble calling, but one that once provided so many opportunities for adulteration and fraud that it brought the entire profession into question, if not ill repute, at least until the late 1980s. Nowadays, with the bureaucracy involved in the appellation controlee system, cheating requires real ingenuity.
The role of the negociant is particularly worthwhile in Burgundy, where the negociants are concentrated in Beaune, and where so many individual growers produce tiny quantities from each of a number of different appellations. The selling of the domaine bottled concept by the likes of Frank schoonmaker and Alexis lichine was so successful that it cast a slur on the work of the negociants by imputation. This was unfortunate, but the likes of Drouhin and Jadot have worked hard to prove how they can be a source of more reliable wine-making skills than all but the top one per cent of grower wine-makers. The Burgundy negociants have been acquiring increasingly significant vineyard holdings of their own, so that Bouchard, Pere et Fils in Beaune and Faiveley of Nuits-St-Georges, for example, are two of the Cote d'Or's most subtantial vineyard owners. These large, well-established houses have been joined by a number of ambitious, smaller negociants such as Verget and Laurent, and to a lesser extent Chartron et Trebuchet and Olivier Leflaive, who now successfully present their work as high art, with concomitant prices. The term negociant-eleveur implies that the negociant oversees the elevage of the wine it sells. Like all important French wine regions, Bordeaux also has a great concentration of negociants, many of which own chateaux (while some of the first growth chateaux also now own a negociant business). For more details, see Bordeaux trade. References adulteration and fraud appellation appellation controlee Bordeaux trade Burgundy chateau Cote d'Or elevage first growth merchants
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