Christian Moueix (in a drawn portrait decorating the labels of one of the earlier vintages of Dominus, see earlier blog) is a French winemaker as well as the president of the negociant business Ets Jean-Pierre Moueix, which his father founded in 1937. Apart from buying bulk grapes and making its own brand of wines, it owns a selection of Right Bank estates including the Pomerol Chateaux Petrus, Trotanoy, Lagrange (Pomerol), Magdelaine, La Fleur-Petrus, Hosanna (previously Ch Certan-Giraud) and the St Emilion Chateaux Fonroque and Belair and of course Dominus in the Napa Valley. Although it grow and makes the wines at Ch Latour-a-Pomerol, the estate actually belongs to Fondation de Foyers de Charité de Châteauneuf de Galaure, having been donated by its owner in 2002.
Now a respected vigneron in Bordeaux, Christian courted controversy when he tried to introduce green harvesting in the early 1970s, and was roundly criticized. He did not succeed in saving the 1991 vintage by some foolhardy helicopter stunts and decided not to offer any wine from Chateau Petrus that year. He was named Decanter's Man of the Year in 2008.
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