Frans de Cock

Frans studied at the University of Ghent in Belgium. From an early age, Frans began collecting wines, which enabled him to organize tastings of old wines.

For his 50th birthday, he organized a vertical tasting of 57 vintages of Petrus. Two years later, he organized a vertical tasting of 67 vintages of Yquem, in the presence of Alexandre de Lur Saluces. He will never forget the horizontal tasting of the 1961 vintage.

Frans also organized Mouton Rothschild tastings at Le Taillevent in Paris, in tribute to Baron Philippe, in the presence of Baroness Philippine de Rothschild.

He also remembers a vertical tasting of Belgian wines in VANDERMEULEN bottles, in the presence of Michael Broadbent (Bordeaux and Burgundy), as well as a tasting of the great Bordeaux wines of 1982 with William Kelley.

Frans made his career in the wood and flooring industry, where he was CEO of a Belgian company, UNILIN. After the acquisition of this company, he became CEO of the Mohawk Group (outside the USA), overseeing some 8,000 employees.