Drouhin Owns Drouhin Again

[Craig Camp]

Nine years after Burgundy's Maison Joseph Drouhin sought outside financial help and relinquished control to a Japanese food-product conglomerate, the Drouhin family has regained a majority stake in their wine-merchant firm.

[inventolux]

Having grown up in Portland, Or, I always loved taking trips out to wine country and frequent trips to Domaine Drouhin. Its nice to know the man who is mostly responsible for bringing the wine boom to Oregon is now in control again. There is nothing worse than watching an artist unable to create because of lack of finances.

Edited June 12, 2003 by inventolux (log)

[hollywood]

Drouhin got me to take pinot noir seriously.

[Mark Sommelier]

Drouhin got me to take pinot noir seriously.

Several months ago I bought some small boutique wines from Sonoma called Scott Paul - excellent pinot noir and very good chardonnay. We poured the chardonnay by the glass, actually - he made about 270 cases total. One day the distributor asked me if I would like to meet Scott. We sat down and had a nice discussion about wine. Scott Paul is actually Scott Paul Wright, who, among other things, is the managing director of Domaine Drouhin. I was impressed.