Peter Thustrup l’Amateur de Vin is a concept founded by its namesake, dedicated to sharing the culture and passion of wine.
Peter is of Swedish origin and has lived in France for over 35 years. He is passionate about great wines and tastes an extensive selection of wines daily. His speciality is old and rare wines, mainly from Bordeaux and Burgundy. Since 1979, Peter has tasted more than 59,000 wines, of which the majority is recorded on individual tasting sheets. Since he was 21 years old, Peter started being fascinated by the history, the culture and the taste of wine. His curiosity led him to spend his whole life developing his wine palate, learning about the complexity of wine, and eventually in 1983, to start his own company.
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History
Peter was a pioneer in this market, with over 40 years experience as a merchant of fine wines. Peter has organised high profile wine tastings around the world including a number of landmark wine tastings including: The Dreamtasting in Stockholm featuring all first growths from 1929 to 1982; The Tokyo 1869/1870 Prephylloxera Tasting; several Petrus Tastings with wines from 1945 to 1982; and 7 Romanée-Conti Tastings in Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo and Kyoto with vintages from 1929 to 2003.
In 1983, Peter founded the wine company, Vins Rares & de Collection, SARL (later renamed Vins Rares Peter Thustrup SAS) specialized in selling very exclusive and expensive wines to high-net worth individuals in Europe, the United States and Japan.
Peter sold Vins Rares Peter Thustrup SAS in 2007, and took a four years pause from the world of wine. In 2011, he started an advisory service for wine lovers, PT Fine Wine Lifestyle, and in 2015, an exclusive activity of sales to private wine lovers, with his company The Wine Collector. In 2020 he initiated the project Peter Thustrup L’Amateur de Vin.
Peter Thustrup L’Amateur de Vin:
Parallel to Peter’s ongoing business in rare wine, he here independently gives the possibility for the wine lover to deepen their knowledge and cruise through all the different aspects of wine and it’s mysteries.
Peter Thustrup L’amateur de vin is a project which aims at sharing ideas, tasting notes, useful facts and historical anecdotes in order to inspire and share a passion for the consumption and the world of wine. From wine prices, to grape varieties, and how to drink wine to feel great, Peter explores and shares journal articles, websites and links which could be useful to the aspiring wine connoisseur.
Family
Since 2020, Peter’s two daughters and sons have progressively started to assist him in different areas of his activities. Peter’s eldest, Camille is responsible for the project L’Amateur de Vin and communication i.e website, social media and marketing. Capucine assists Peter in his daily work, customer relations and relations with vintners as well as with social media. Timothée is in charge of researching new wines and market information and Luca Helps Peter with technical support.