Odart Alexandre Pierre

The aristocratic French agricultural and viticulturalist Alexandre Pierre Odart or Le Comte Odart (1778-1866) studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He farmed on the family estate in Cheillé in the département of Indre-et-Loire and acquired the Domaine de la Dorée in Esvres in the Loire region in 1805. There he began to experiment with grape varieties. In 1839, King Louis Philippe (1773-1850) sent him to Hungary as a wine expert to study the production of Tokay. From this trip he took Furmint vines with him. In 1837, Odart published a work, examined and approved by the French Agricultural Society, on the subjects of vine cultivation methods and wine-making methods for all types of wine. The ampelographic work "Ampélographie universelle ou Traité des Cépages" was published in 1854, at which time he was considered the leading ampelographer alongside Victor Rendu (1809-1874).

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