Patrick Baseden and Montesquieu Wines

The wine negociant Montesquieu discovers unknown wines from around the world that are steeped in winemaking tradition and reflect the beauty of their terroir and culture. The vintages they import from around the world are not wines you would find at your local store. Their wine tasting panel chooses from among numerous vineyards and vintages to bring the best selections of wines from around the world to your table. Montesquieu draws from hunBordeaudreds of small, family-owned wineries that have been overlooked by United States because of their size and imports the exclusive vintages that are bursting with flavor to our country. The wines Montesquieu’s wine tasting panel chooses are not merely wonderful bottles of wine, but works of art.

Montesquieu’s wine panel tastes hundreds of wines a month to ensure its consumers the best possible wine experiences. On occasion, Montesquieu only chooses one wine out of every hundred they taste, ensuring the quality the brokerage’s exclusive wines are known for. Some of the wines the brokers taste are samples sent to them by prospective wineries, but most of the wine Montesquieu imports are ones the panelists have discovered themselves on their foreign travels and wine tasting tours.

The panelists believe in the intrinsic diversity of wine and choose quality, individualistic wines from only the best wineries in the world. Every member of the tasting panel has in-depth knowledge of the wine industry and brings his/her own unique wine experiences to the wine choosing process.

Patrick Baseden is one of Montesquieu’s exclusive wine panelists. Born in France, he is married to a descendant of the Montesquieu family. He attended an exclusive Parisian university, Paris-Sorbonne, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Law and his MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration in Fontainebleau. Before he became the founder and CEO of the Montesquieu Vins and Domaines in 1993, Patrick Baseden was the Assistant Vice President of JP Morgan in New York and Paris, the Export Director for Veuve Clicquot Champagne and later became the Executive Vice President. From the Montesquieu family estate in Bordeaux, Baseden, the current Baron de Montesquieu, develops and promotes the Montesquieu wines with his enologist son, Hubert.