French wine legend Louis Latour dies
07 April 2016
Louis Latour, a giant of the French wine industry, has died at the aged of 83.
Latour ran his family business Maison Louis Latour, founded in 1797, for 40 years from 1958 to 1998.
Born in 1932, he took over the business having studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
He was the 10th generation of his family to run the company.
In 1986, he oversaw the building of a new winery and also founded a company in the US to handle the export of his times to the US.
The US is now Maison Louis Latour's largest export market.
The business sells wines in 125 countries with around 500,000 cases made each year.
Latour is survived by his wife Ghislaine, four children and nine grandchildren.
