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CLÉMENT PARADISI,<br />
THE WINEMAKER AT<br />
MAISON SEIGNOURET<br />
Output is falling, either because the crop is damaged and some of the fruit is<br />
discarded during stringent sorting, or because yields are low. This was true of<br />
summer 2022, when heat and drought produced smaller berries.<br />
SEIGNOURET FRÈRES & CIE:<br />
CHÂTEAUX AND/OR BRANDS<br />
Our survey begins with a long-standing trading company – François Seignouret<br />
founded the firm in 1830. It now distributes 11 million bottles annually around the<br />
world, 80% to export markets. Winemaker Clément Paradisi is tasked with sourcing<br />
the wines and 95% of them come from Gironde. Although purchases include<br />
some Grands Crus, there are also, quite naturally, some Castillon-Côtes de Bordeaux<br />
wines.<br />
The company sells wines by Château Lartigue and has worked with the property<br />
for some fifteen years, marketing around 50,000 bottles a year. As Paradisi points<br />
out, this involves visiting the chateau and tasting the juice and fermenting wines,<br />
which are subsequently bought ‘from the tank’. Bottling, however, is conducted at<br />
the chateau so that the all-important ‘estate-bottled’ statement can feature on the<br />
AUTUMN 2022 • GILBERT & GAILLARD - THE FRENCH EXPERTS ON WINE<br />
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