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Over the past 30 years,
my passion for and knowledge about wine stem from my dual background: vintner on my family’s property and consultant for French and foreign wine estates. Different and complementary, these experiences reinforced my conviction that vine-growing and winemaking can only be considered in the light of profound insight, effective implementation, and precise steering.
They also convinced me that it is each estate’s responsibility to preserve the cultural heritage and landscape, from which it originates. I will accompany you in view of providing a clear and detailed analysis of your estate, so that your activity, beyond expertise, offers a vision of the future all the while protecting your patrimony.
We will also enthusiastically collaborate together as a vintner’s work ethic has to adapt to the trends of the present-day world. For a heritage asset requires an active and a financial transmission. This involves a realistic and ambitious strategy, capable of ensuring a company’s economic soundness.
Moreover, my guidance is not all theory or an ideal projection. Through my winegrowing and advisory expertise, we will develop a patrimonial vision and an entrepreneurial spirit offering the perfect conditions for
the growth of your wine.
Jean-Pierre Confuron
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A PRECISE COURSE OF ACTION
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• Consulting,
this involves adapting advice to ensure that the vintner’s needs are fully satisfied.
• Enterprising,
this involves analyzing the production tool to orientate in the short, medium and long term.
• Perpetuating,
this involves sharing technical choices with teams to ensure that the transmission of expertise is both a matter of protecting heritage but also of setting priorities for the future.
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BASIS TO A METHOD
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• Ethics
At once moral by ensuring that your interests are respected, and professional by remaining consistent with current production standards.
• Empathy
By proximity with people in view of better understanding their needs and the management of their business.
• Expertise
Drawing from cutting edge competence when it comes to vine-growing, winemaking, the environment and patrimony.
• Efficiency
Propositions developed in full independence, with relevant interventions, adapted to each project, without predefined formatted schemes.
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ITINERARIES
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• Sustainable vine-growing
A vineyard is part of a specific landscape and terroir. The fruit’s standard of quality produces a unique wine derived from its place of birth.
The CEP approach scrupulously respects the area’s biodiversity by guiding you towards virtuous vine-growing and by adapting to the consequences of climate change.
ESTATE AUDITING & APPRASIAL
adapting plant /soil /climate /biodiversity material
management of response measures and use of fertilizers / observations and analyses / determining maturities / profiles of desired wines.
• Responsible winemaking
Derived from healthy grapes, respecting their terroir and grape variety, a sincere wine is elaborated without vine-growing or winemaking gimmicks.
The objective of CEP is that of striving to elaborate a high definition wine, without too much intervention, all the while mastering the winemaking, maturing and bottling phases.
WINERY AUDITING &
WINE PROFILE APPRAISAL
specializing in whole cluster winemaking / SO2 and oxygen management / desired profiles / reasoned maturing and bottling / closures / tracking / production standards.
• An efficient organization
The profession of vintner is complex involving specific skills and techniques, combined with a well-run organization and a realistic business vision.
The CEP approach focusses on the pertinence of the production tool, as well as maximizing the wines’ productivity and visibility.
PRODUCTION AUDITING & EXPERTISE
reflection about gravity-fed winemaking – respecting the environment / water management / waste and flow management / cooling of the harvest / temperature control / safety at work / risk analysis.
• Serene transmission
Through sustainable vine-growing and its signature, an estate is an agricultural and a human heritage. Moreover, expertise has to be passed on in view of perpetuating an estate’s patrimony.
Through its family and business experience, CEP has the skills and necessary hindsight to facilitate the transmission of heritage and to help you take the right decisions at the right moment.
PROVIDING SUPPORT & ADVICE
training of teams / organization and working time management / decision help / recruiting / interaction with prescribers and professionals / ensuring a serene transmission.
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CEP proposes its assistance in vine-growing and winemaking to a limited number of estates, interested in elaborating high definition wines, with limited intervention and fully respecting the environment.
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RÉSUMÉ OF MY WORK EXPERIENCE
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- Domaine Confuron Cotetidot
Co-owner and Co-manager
• grown organically since 2004.
• specializing in whole bunch winemaking.
2014, RVF: winemaker of the year.
2016, Bettane & Desseauve: ranked 3rd in the top 10 list of best winemakers of Pinot Noir worldwide, after Aubert de Villaine (Domaine Romanée-Conti) and Lalou Bize Leroy (Domaine Leroy).
- Maison et Domaine Chanson Père & Fils
Technical Consultant from 2003 to 2018, Technical Manager from 2018 to 2020
2007: International Wine Challenge, Beaune Clos des Mouches 2005 elected the world’s best white wine.
2012: RVF, ranked among the top 50 Burgundy wine estates.
2014: Wine & Spirits, USA, voted estate of the year.
2017, Bettane & Desseauve: best wines of the year for three products - B Clos des Mouches, B Clos des Fèves and B Grèves 2015.
- Domaine Vylyan, Hongrie
Technical Consultant from 1998 to 2008: management, vineyard, cellar, product range
2008: Hungary’s best wine estate.
- Beaune Professional
Training Center
Vine-growing and winemaking teacher and lecturer from 1996 to 2008
At present, Jean-Pierre Confuron is still sharing his experience and passing on his knowledge to young people or new wine-growers undergoing training or setting up their own business.