‘My Goal in Everything I Do Is to Bring People Together to Share,’ Says Jean-Charles Boisset, President, The Boisset Collection, Person of the Year | Wine Enthusiast’s 2024 Wine Star Awards
Long a diligent student of history, Jean-Charles Boisset seems destined to become a part of it in California. When he was just 10 years old, Jean-Charles Boisset visited coastal California from his native Burgundy with his grandparents and toured the Spanish Missions from Monterey to Sonoma. The history he learned about must have left quite an impression on him. So much so, that he seems now destined to become a part of it. When he moved decades later to his now adopted home in California, Boisset made a splash with the acquisitions of several historic properties, including Raymond Vineyards in Rutherford (which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2024), Deloach Vineyards in Russian River Valley, Oakville Grocery and the most historic of them all: Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma, which was founded in 1840 by “Count” Agoston Haraszthy, a Hungarian who is widely credited as being the father of modern viticulture in California. Along the way to preserving California’s history and its l