By Kori ~ September 10th, 2009.
This weekâ€™s Wine Word of the Week is nÃ©gociant.
Official definition from Jancis Robinsonâ€™s The Oxford Companion to Wine:
NÃ©gociant is a French term for a merchant and one used particularly of wine merchants who buy in grapes, must, or wine, blend different lots of wine within an appellation, and bottle the result under their own label.
Laymanâ€™s terms from Kori:
NÃ©gociant is a French term for a wine merchant who buys grapes or wine from small growers and makes a blended wine under their own label.
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