422: Christian Moueix on 50 Years of Pomerol and Napa Valley

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🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Christian Moueix is the president of Etablissements Jean-Pierre Moueix, based on the Right Bank of Bordeaux, France. He oversees several properties in Pomerol and Saint-Emilion, including Chateau La Fleur-Petrus, Chateau Trotanoy, and Chateau Hosanna. Christian is also the owner of the Dominus Estate and Ulysses wineries in the Napa Valley of California.

Christian opens up about his family life and career in this interview, touching on the post-war era of Pomerol, through the 1980s in Napa Valley - which turned out to be a fulcrum period of change for that region - and up through his recent business dealings and purchases in both California and Bordeaux. Fans of Chateau Petrus will find plenty of insight from Christian about that wine in this interview, as he discusses his forty years overseeing the property. Those curious about wineries that he owns today will also find plenty of detail, as well as many amazing anecdotes.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Christian. Christian Moiex of establishment John Pierre Moiex in the right bank of Bordeaux and also in
0:29.6	Napa Valley.
0:30.6	Hello sir how are you?
0:31.6	I'm fine thank you. Thank you for being here. So you were born in
0:35.3	1946? Yes. That's an interesting time for many reasons. Well I was a baby boomer
0:41.0	clearly, but I didn't realize it at the time.
0:45.0	And your dad had moved from a different area of France to settle.
0:49.0	Yes, from the central part of France, or more precisely the Corres, a very poor region where they applied the right of the first
0:55.8	born.
0:56.8	Happily so for me my father was a second born so that he did not inherit anything in a way and that's why he started from nothing
1:06.2	and began in 1937 as a wine merchant in Libron in the company which I managed now for many years and he was a very talented man
1:17.0	extremely talented he was a world which is probably abused, he was a visionary,
1:23.6	visionary in all senses of the term,
1:26.5	which means first he was able to guess
1:30.4	the quality of a wine in its youth.
1:35.0	Pomol was almost unknown at the time,
1:38.0	and he knew that Pomol would become a great apparition
1:42.0	because he knew the way the ones will evolve.
1:44.5	But I will develop that later.
1:46.7	He was a visionary as well in terms of people, you see. he was able, I have been amazed so many times, he was able to guess at first sight the quality of a man or a woman, and that's very rare and that was striking in my youth. And third point but not the least, he was passionate by art and contemporary art.
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