The winemaker
« I’m not a revolutionary. I came with an idea, to build something. »
Samuel Tinon was born in Bordeaux in 1969 and grew up on the family estate in Sainte-Croix du Mont, near Bordeaux. He graduated in viticulture and oenology in 1989 travelling the world as a flying winemaker in Australia, Texas, Chile, and in Italy where he has worked since 1996 in partnership with the Count Brandino Brandolini d’Adda* in Vistorta near Venezia (Friuli).
The Tokaj adventure begins in 1991. He was the first French man to settle in the region, just after the political changes and prior the start of the privatization of the vineyards. During 15 years he worked as a consultant and followed the evolution of the Tokaj styles for different companies.
“It took me 10 years”
These multiple experiences brought him to create his own production of Tokaj great sweet wines, having in mind the work of the big châteaux in Bordeaux. “It took me ten years to express in Tokaj what I had in mind.”