Meaning "merchant", in the wine trade refers to wine merchants who buy wine from various sources and blend and bottle it to sell under their own label. They play a key role in Burgundy where some négociants, such as Louis Latour and Bouchard Père et Fils, have earned reputations for consistent quality in a region at times fraught with inconsistency.
A company that buys bulk grapes or unlabeled wine from growers or winemakers. Wine is either made and blended or unlabeled wine is blended, aged, and then sold.
(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 sound as though it will result in great wine, many négociants - who operate extensively in Burgundy - produce benchmark examples and perform a very important role.
(nay-go-syahn) is French for a wholesale wine merchant, blender and shipper.
(neh-go-see-ahn) The French word for a trader or merchant. In wine terms it is the merchant who buys the wine in cask, and then bottles, labels and sells it. There is also a growing trend among negociants to buy the grapes and make the wine themselves.
a merchant who buys grapes or wine from a grower and brings it up in his own cellars
Merchant that produces wine under its own label from wine or grapes bought from others. Negociant usually oversees the production process.
A French term used to describe a company that purchases grapes or wine from growers and sells the product under its own label.
A French term for a merchant who buys and sells wines usually under his own name; they may also have their own vineyards and make their own wine.
French for “merchant.†Negociants buy grapes, must or wine, blend them together and bottle them under their own name. This practice is particularly common in Burgundy, where many growers have very small lots each year.
A French wine merchant who buys grapes and vinifies them, or buys wines and combines them, bottles the result under his own label and ships them; most commonly found in Burgundy.
A shipper or wine dealer.
French for "trader". A wine merchant who assembles the produce of smaller growers and winemakers and sells the result under its own name.
A wine merchant who buys grapes or already fermented wines, then ages, blends, bottles and ships them under his own label. Many famous French wine companies (particularly in Burgundy and the Rhone) make wines from vineyards they don't own and thus are negotiants. Examples include Guigal, Jaboulet, Jadot, Duboeuf, Drouhin and Laboure-Roi. Many American companies are technically negociants as well, making wines from grapes purchased from vineyards they don't own. Negociant wines can be as good or better than estate bottled wines (and vice versa).
