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    Olivier Bernard

    Administrator-Manager, Domaine de Chevalier

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    Portrait of Olivier Bernard

    i. Biography

    Olivier Bernard is the administrator-manager of Domaine de Chevalier in Léognan, Bordeaux, which his family purchased in 1983 and which he has run ever since. He also manages Domaine de la Solitude, which was entrusted to the Bernard family in 1993, and oversees Château Lespault-Martillac, whose vineyard exploitation has been managed by Domaine de Chevalier since the 2009 vintage. Sources also describe him as the proprietor or owner of Domaine de Chevalier and as a leading Bordeaux figure, including former president of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux.

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