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Florian Richter
Winemaker
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i. Biography
Florian Richter has been the winemaker at Domaine des Deux Clés in Languedoc, France, since 2015, a position built on technical discipline and a habit of working across sites, regions, and cellar cultures. The son of a German wine importer, he came into the trade with proximity to wine already in place; what followed was a career defined less by rhetoric than by repeated exposure to how different places ask for different decisions.
The Climb
Training at Dijon and Geisenheim University gave Richter a formal base before the work widened across Burgundy, Germany, Napa Valley, Tuscany, Châteauneuf du Pape, New Zealand, and Languedoc. From 2009, he worked at Maison Champy in Burgundy, then in wine regions at Germany, before moving on to Lokoya in Napa Valley, Hall Wines in Napa Valley, with Alberto Antonini in Tuscany, at Château Beaucastel in Châteauneuf du Pape, at Domaine du Pégau in Châteauneuf du Pape, and at Te Awa in New Zealand. Read together, those postings map a winemaker trained by contrast: different climates, different traditions, same demand for attention to site and method. That sequence continued at a languedoc cooperative at Languedoc cooperative in Languedoc, France (2012–2015), a bridge between international experience and the southern French setting where his work would settle. Since 2015, Florian has been winemaker of Domaine des Deux Clés, where the estate’s identity and his own practice have developed in tandem.
Today
Since 2015, he has been the winemaker there. The continuity matters: the years at Domaine des Deux Clés gather the earlier stops into one sustained remit, with training, travel, and repetition folded into a single long-running cellar role. Florian Richter’s name now sits against the day-to-day craft of making wine at the estate, season after season.
Signature
The name functions as shorthand for the style associated with Richter at Domaine des Deux Clés: an estate wine that identifies both the place and the person behind it. In trade terms, it is the named reference attached to his work since 2015.
Profile updated July 2026
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What is Florian Richter's current role?
As of 2026, Florian Richter is Winemaker.
Where did Florian Richter train or study?
Florian Richter trained at Dijon and Geisenheim University.
