About Jacques Puisais
Lived 1927 – 2020 (aged 93). Jacques Puisais was a French oenologist, author, philosopher and biologist.
Jacques Puisais (8 June 1927 – 6 December 2020) was known worldwide as a French oenologist and taste philosopher.
Life and career Puisais was born in Poitiers, France, on 8 June 1927. He held a PhD in chemistry, and directed the Laboratoire Départemental et Régional d'Analyses in Tours. Puisais started giving courses of taste education in 1964. He was a member of the INAO.
He created the Institut Français du Goût in 1976, in order to develop multidisciplinary research around taste and food sensitivity. Eager to introduce children to taste, Puisais developed a method of sensory awakening that has been used in classrooms since then.
His main book is "Le goût juste des vins et des plats", a bestseller published in 1985.
He died from COVID-19 on 6 December 2020, at the age of 93.
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Who was Jacques Puisais?
French oenologist
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Jacques Puisais was born on 8 June 1927 in Poitiers.
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Jacques Puisais died on 6 December 2020 in Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt.
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Jacques Puisais was an oenologist, author, philosopher and biologist.
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Jacques Puisais was French.
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