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Tchelistcheff André

The legendary oenologist André Tchelistcheff (1901-1994) was born in Moscow. He was able to successfully complete his agricultural studies in Brno (Czechoslovakia) after a lengthy war-related injury or illness. In 1937 he began to study viticulture and oenology in Paris and worked part-time on a vineyard near Versailles. In addition, he was an assistant director at the viticulture department of the Institut National d'Agronomie. Tchelistcheff perfected his knowledge during lectures on microbiology at the Institut Pasteur. For some time he also worked for the champagne house Moët et Chandon.

Tchelistcheff André - im Weinberg, Statue und im Keller

Tchelistcheff met the Frenchman Georges de Latour, who ran the Beaulieu Vineyard in California's Napa Valley. The latter hired him as cellar master in 1937, a position he held there for 35 years. Miljenko "Mike" Grgich (born 1923) and Joe Heitz (1919-2000) also worked at the winery as his assistants for some time. Tchelistcheff pioneered modern cellar management in California. He introduced new winemaking techniques such as malolactic fer mentation, temperature-controlled fermentation and other cellar engineering measures, dealt with the prevention of frost damage (by wind machines) and thus influenced enormously the rapid rise of Californian viticulture.

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