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Dubœuf, Georges (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Dubœuf, Georges

His Beaujolais, c1989: t.p. (Georges Dubœuf)

Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 7, 2020 (in obituary dated Jan. 6, 2020: Georges Duboeuf; Mr. Duboeuf, a master wine merchant known as the "pope of Beaujolais," was 86 when he died Jan. 4 at his home in the French town of Romanèche-Thorins, where his empire of Gamay grapes and floral bottles had grown to include a museum and even an amusement park; Les Vins Georges Duboeuf, the company Mr. Duboeuf founded in 1964; Georges Duboeuf was born in Crêches-sur-Saône on April 14, 1933. In the 1950s, he formed an association of local producers, L'Écrin Mâconnais-Beaujolais, to promote the region's wines. Mr. Duboeuf opened his museum and amusement park, Hameau Duboeuf, in 1993)

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