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a personAubert de Villaine

Co-director of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti from 1974 to 2021, and the man who spent a decade carrying Burgundy's climats to UNESCO.

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He ran the domaine alongside Lalou Bize-Leroy until disagreements ended that arrangement in 1991, stepped back to an advisory role in 2022, and chaired the campaign that put the climats on the World Heritage List in 2015.

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countryFrance
regionBurgundy
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

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cellarDomaine de la Romanée-ContiThe domaine he ran for nearly fifty years.and of this page it says: Co-director, and the man who carried the Climats to UNESCO.wordClimatThe unit he argued was heritage.personLalou Bize-LeroyCo-director until 1991.and of this page it says: Her co-director there.

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