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Vast insurance group based in France whose wine division AXA-Millesimes is very small in the context of the company and very big in the context of fine wine in general and Bordeaux in particular. Claude Bebear, the company's president and founder, was led to buy the small St-Emilion property Ch Franc-Mayne in 1984 as an indirect result of his friendship with Jean-Michel Cazes of Pauillac. Seeing the investment potential of good Bordeaux properties, he founded AXA-Millesimes, managed by Cazes alongside his own wine holdings including Ch Lynch Bages, in 1987. Initial acquisitions included Clos de l'Arlot in Nuits-St-Georges, the cru bourgeois Ch Pibran and, also in Pauillac, the second growth Ch Pichon Baron, a fairy-tale chateau which has since been lavishly refurbished, re-equipped, and renamed Ch Pichon-Longueville. In 1989 another landmark building Ch Cantenac-Brown of Margaux was acquired, along with Pomerol's Ch Petit Village, sold by the Prats family of Cos in St-Estephe. Three years later Sauternes first growth Ch Suduiraut and the Disznoko vineyard in Tokaji were added, a sweet triumvirate being completed by the acquisition of the Quinta do Noval port business in 1993. AXA is by no means the only French insurance company to have invested in wine-related real estate but its distinguishing feature is how it uses wine as a unifying cultural aspect within the corporate ethic. About 4,000 managers a year are shipped in for a week's course, including some wine knowledge, at education centres established in Cantenac-Brown and Suduiraut. In 1998 the initial property Ch Franc-Mayne was designated too small for the AXA-Millesimes' grand plan and sold.
References cru bourgeois Margaux Nuits-St-Georges Pauillac Pomerol port Sauternes St-Estephe Tokaji
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