French term for someone who deals in wines. Commonly, small growers who lack the facility to make wine will sell their grapes to a négociant, who then makes, bottles and markets the wine.
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French for 'trader'. A wine merchant who assembles the produce of smaller growers and winemakers and sells the result under its own name.
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(France) Term to describe a winemaker that buys in grapes or juice (fermented or unfermented) and then completes the winemaking process. The wine will then be bottled under their own label, but may sometimes make reference to the source of the grapes. Many négociants also own some vineyards as another source of grapes. Although the system does not...
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Negociants are smiliar to wholesalers. Most Bordeaux chateaux do not sell wine to customers. In almost every case, they only sell their wine to Negociants who agree to purchase the wine in every vintage. Negociants resell the wine to a myriad of clients for examples, importers, wholesalers, large merchants etc.
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French word describing a wholesale merchant, blender, or shipper of wine.
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(French) A wine merchant who purchases parcels of wine from various sources before blending them and bottling them to sell under their own label.
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