Based both in Paris and Bordeaux in
the heart of the vineyards, FICOFI operates worldwide, proposing a
range of unique and exclusive services featuring the finest wines.
FICOFI – one man’s passion
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Philippe
Capdouze, a young Bordeaux-bred entrepreneur, is a graduate both in
finance from Paris Dauphine University and in oenology from the Bordeaux Wine
Institute.
In 1990, he decided to fulfill his dream of working with fine wines and
created FICOFI with a group of friends. At the same time, he started a
promising career in the Renault Group where he managed risk and exchange rates
for 8 years.
In 1997 he started to work full time for FICOFI.
Like all great sportsmen – and Philippe was once French University
tennis champion – he knew how to attract the most competent people to work
with him and make FICOFI what it is today, a world expert in Grands Crus wines
and their environment:
the owners of the greatest estates have
sufficient confidence in FICOFI to agree partnerships,
internationally recognised wine
authorities work with FICOFI and strengthen our expertise,
our excellent staff, each an expert in
an individual field, work together as a team with one objective in mind – to
satisfy the client.
FICOFI KEY DATES
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1990
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Ficofi is created |
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1993 |
Creation of the Amateurs de Grands Crus Club® with many participating châteaux owners : Alexandre de Lur Saluces (Château d’Yquem), May Eliane de Lencquesaing (Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande), Christophe Salin (Château Lafite Rothschild). |
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1995 |
First edition of the Palais des Grands Crus®
in Paris
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1996 |
Creation of the trading company MCN FICOFI in Bordeaux, with wine allocations from the greatest châteaux. |
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1997 |
Philippe Capdouze leaves Renault to work full time for FICOFI |
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1999 |
First edition of the Palais des Grands Crus® in Hong Kong. |
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2000 |
First Petrus, Guigal, Roederer, Jadot dinner in the presence of the owners of these mythical estates. |
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2001 |
FICOFI advises Société Générale in the creation and management of SGAM 1er Cru, the first shared collection of fine wines, receiving a trophy for Financial Innovation from Standard & Poors – la Tribune |
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2002 |
FICOFI’s development in Asia accelerates: Palais des Grands Crus® in Singapore and Hong Kong; tasting dinners in Tokyo, and Djakarta... |
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2005 |
Conception and launch of Ultimate Grands Crus Collection®, to select, buy, stock, deliver, manage and animate cellar collections for HNWI wine lovers. |
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2007 |
FICOFI organises more than 200 events in the year of
which almost half in Asia.
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