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Georges Duboeuf (born 1933 in Crèches, France) is the founder of Les Vins Georges Duboeuf, one of the largest and best-known wine merchants in France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The company is known especially for its popularization and production of Beaujolais wines, leading to Duboeuf's nicknames of le roi du Beaujolais (the king of Beaujolais) or sometimes pape du Beaujoleais (pope of Beaujolais). Beaujolais is a French Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC Wine generally made of the Gamay Grape which has a thin

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Early life and career

Duboeuf was born on a Good Friday, April 14, 1933 in Crèches, near the village of Chaintré, in the Pouilly-Fuissé appellation of France. Good Friday, also called Holy Friday or Great Friday, is the Friday preceding Easter Sunday ("Pascha" Pouilly-Fuissé is an appellation (AOC of Burgundy wine in central France. Appellation d’origine contrôlée ( AOC) which translates as "controlled term of origin" is the French certification granted to certain French Pouilly-Fuissé consists of five villages, southwest of the commune of Mâcon, in the central French wine-making region of Burgundy. Pouilly-Fuissé is an appellation (AOC of Burgundy wine in central France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Mâcon is a commune of France, préfecture (capital of the Saône-et-Loire département, in the Bourgogne Burgundy wine ( is wine made in the Burgundy region in eastern France. Duboeuf was raised on a small farm, where his family owned a few acres of chardonnay vines. His father died when he was very young, and his uncle and older brother, Roger, took over the business.

Duboeuf helped on the family vinyard growing up, cranking the manual grape crusher when he was just six. At the age of 18, he began delivering wine on his bicycle from producers to local restaurants. He began bottling Beaujolais to meet a customer's commission, and went on to form a syndicate of 45 local growers, the Ecrin Mâconnais-Beaujolais. The organization fell apart due to squabbling, and Duboeuf became a négociant in 1964, when he founded Les Vins Georges Duboeuf. 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

He married his wife Rolande in the early 1960s, and has two children, Fabienne and Franck.

Les Vins Georges Duboeuf

Duboeuf's business produces more than 25 million cases of wine annually. Wine is an Alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of Grape juice He is almost single-handedly responsible for popularizing the annual Beaujolais nouveau phenomenon, and has won awards for his wines. Beaujolais nouveau is a red Wine made from Gamay grapes produced in the Beaujolais region of France. His wine labels are easily recognizeable by their use of colorful flower images and the distinctive Duboeuf insignia. Wine labels are important sources of information for consumers since they tell the type and origin of the wine

Georges Duboeuf still heads the company as of 2007, at the age of 74, and his son Franck Duboeuf is considered his heir apparent.

Wine fraud scandal

The Vins Georges Duboeuf company was charged in 2005 with mixing low-grade wine with fine vintages after a patchy 2004 harvest. Wine fraud is a form of Fraud in which Wines are sold to a customer illicitly usually having the customer spend more money than the product is worth or causing sickness [1] Georges Duboeuf denied wrongdoing, blaming human error and pointing out that none of the affected wine was released to consumers. [1] The production manager directly responsible admitted his actions and resigned, and a court found that both "fraud and attempted fraud concerning the origin and quality of wines" had been committed. [1] Fewer than 200,000 liters of the company's annual 270 million liter production were implicated, but L'Affaire Duboeuf, as it was called, was considered a serious scandal. [2]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c Samuel, Henry. French wine is produced in several regions throughout France, on over 800000 Hectares (over 2 million Acres of Vineyards and in a typical The following is a partial list of people involved in winemaking and related efforts: Ted Allen: television personality and food and wine expert (2006-07-05. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England. ) "King of Beaujolais is convicted over adulterated wines." (News website. ) Telegraph. co. uk. Retrieved on 2007-10-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas
  2. ^ Walt, Vivienne. (2005-10-03. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's ) "The grapes of wrath." (News website. ) CNN. com. Retrieved on 2007-10-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas

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