US EditionAfternoon Brief: Michel Rolland, Prominent Wine Consultant and Vintner, Dies at 78
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He died at 78 years of age the first truly global enologist, who cut off the distance between Bordeaux and the New World, leaving a bunch of wines shaped by technique and motion
He contributed to the internationalisation of Bordeaux wines, but also, according to some, to the standardization of their taste towards wooded and carpented profiles. He died on the night from Thursday to Friday, announced his daughter Marie Rolland.
This Friday Michel Rolland, the renowned French winemaker who had a vineyard in Mendoza province, died at the age of 78. The news was confirmed in the last hours by Bodega Rolland. “Michel left us today because of a fulminating heart attack. He was still full of energy, projects, travel plans. Perhaps his heart was overwhelmed by that busy life that he loved so much, because of his 55 years of hard work, his travels to all the latitudes of the w…
Wine all over the world was dyed this Friday in mourning. It is that at 78 years old Michel Rolland died, one of the most important figures of world winemaking. French at birth, his talent led him to travel all over the world and to take root in Argentina by the hand of Malbec and high-end wines. But beyond his contribution in the productive and qualitative, Rolland left a solid legacy with several wineries and investments that continue to bear …
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